Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020Random House Publishing Group, 25. maí 2021 - 368 síður Newly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century—including many texts never previously in print—by the Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay Salman Rushdie is celebrated as “a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker), illuminating truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word and solidify his place as one of the most original thinkers of our time. Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, Languages of Truth chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual engagement with a period of momentous cultural shifts. Immersing the reader in a wide variety of subjects, he delves into the nature of storytelling as a human need, and what emerges is, in myriad ways, a love letter to literature itself. Rushdie explores what the work of authors from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison mean to him, whether on the page or in person. He delves deep into the nature of “truth,” revels in the vibrant malleability of language and the creative lines that can join art and life, and looks anew at migration, multiculturalism, and censorship. Enlivened on every page by Rushdie’s signature wit and dazzling voice, Languages of Truth offers the author’s most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us on an exhilarating tour of his own exuberant and fearless imagination. |
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... magic beans, or a naughty rabbit trespassing on a dangerous farmer's land. The children fell in love with these stories and wanted to hear them over and over again. Then they grew older and found those stories in books. And other ...
... magic beans, or a naughty rabbit trespassing on a dangerous farmer's land. The children fell in love with these stories and wanted to hear them over and over again. Then they grew older and found those stories in books. And other ...
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... magic mirror that entered people's bloodstreams and turned their hearts to ice, was even more terrifying to a boy from the tropics, where the only ice was in the refrigerator. “The Emperor's New Clothes” felt especially enjoyable to a ...
... magic mirror that entered people's bloodstreams and turned their hearts to ice, was even more terrifying to a boy from the tropics, where the only ice was in the refrigerator. “The Emperor's New Clothes” felt especially enjoyable to a ...
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... magic nectar. Maybe if I opened my mouth, a drop might fall in and then I would be immortal too. This is the beauty ... magical and the real, at such moments, ceases to exist. We were not Hindus, my family, but we believed the ...
... magic nectar. Maybe if I opened my mouth, a drop might fall in and then I would be immortal too. This is the beauty ... magical and the real, at such moments, ceases to exist. We were not Hindus, my family, but we believed the ...
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... magic realism of the South American fabulists, so that when I, in my turn, used some of those devices, I had the feeling of closing a circle and bringing that story tradition all the way back home to the country in which it began. But I ...
... magic realism of the South American fabulists, so that when I, in my turn, used some of those devices, I had the feeling of closing a circle and bringing that story tradition all the way back home to the country in which it began. But I ...
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... magic, human magic, the true wonder of the wonder tale. — I'M TRYING TO MAKE a case in favor of something that is pretty much out of fashion these days. By general consensus, we live in an age of nonfiction. Any publisher, any ...
... magic, human magic, the true wonder of the wonder tale. — I'M TRYING TO MAKE a case in favor of something that is pretty much out of fashion these days. By general consensus, we live in an age of nonfiction. Any publisher, any ...
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Heraclitus | |
Another Writers Beginnings | |
Philip Roth | |
Kurt Vonnegut and SlaughterhouseFive | |
Samuel Becketts Novels | |
Cervantes and Shakespeare | |
Hans Christian Andersen | |
Very Well Then I Contradict Myself | |
The Pen and the Sword | |
PEN World Voices Opening Night 2017 | |
The Emperor Akbar and the Making | |
Letters | |
Bhupen Khakhar 19342003 | |
An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar | |
Harold Pinter 19302008 | |
Introduction to The Paris Review Interviews Vol IV | |
Adaptation | |
From Saligia to Oblomov | |
Kara Walker at the Hammer Museum Los Angeles 2009 | |
The Unbelievers Christmas | |
A Personal Engagement with the Coronavirus | |
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