Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020Newly 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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we see the arrival of what will become, in Renaissance art and literature, a more prevalent motif: the beautiful witch. (In fact, the beautiful witch is found much earlier too, in Greek mythology, for example, where the sorceress Circe ...
we see the arrival of what will become, in Renaissance art and literature, a more prevalent motif: the beautiful witch. (In fact, the beautiful witch is found much earlier too, in Greek mythology, for example, where the sorceress Circe ...
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I too was writing about a woman walking along the knife-edge of this vulnerable power and eventually having to run for her life, and I was struck by how much of the literature of the fantastic deals with the fear of women and the ...
I too was writing about a woman walking along the knife-edge of this vulnerable power and eventually having to run for her life, and I was struck by how much of the literature of the fantastic deals with the fear of women and the ...
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This is what people do when they experience literature on a stage or in a book, but they forget they are doing it, or if they remember they don't think it's important, they think it's natural, even though it's the opposite, ...
This is what people do when they experience literature on a stage or in a book, but they forget they are doing it, or if they remember they don't think it's important, they think it's natural, even though it's the opposite, ...
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Edward Bond understood that the silence of Shakespeare is the interesting mystery, the decision of the greatest genius in the history of English literature to walk away from that genius, at the height of his career, to give up writing ...
Edward Bond understood that the silence of Shakespeare is the interesting mystery, the decision of the greatest genius in the history of English literature to walk away from that genius, at the height of his career, to give up writing ...
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... but not before he has told Ben Jonson how much he envies his good reviews, not before Ben Jonson has told him how much he envies his popularity, because they are both under the curse of literature, never to be satisfied with what ...
... but not before he has told Ben Jonson how much he envies his good reviews, not before Ben Jonson has told him how much he envies his popularity, because they are both under the curse of literature, never to be satisfied with what ...
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| Titill | Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 |
| Höfundur | Salman Rushdie |
| Útgefandi | Random House Publishing Group, 2021 |
| ISBN | 0593133188, 9780593133187 |
| Length | 368 síður |
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