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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Only by unleashing the fictionality of fiction, the imaginativeness of the imagination, the dream songs of our dreams, can we hope to approach the new, and to create fiction that may, once again, be more interesting than the facts.
Only by unleashing the fictionality of fiction, the imaginativeness of the imagination, the dream songs of our dreams, can we hope to approach the new, and to create fiction that may, once again, be more interesting than the facts.
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The other answer is to write the book; so I wrote Luka and the Fire of Life, and as a result spent much time wandering around wonderlands once again, the imaginary worlds we love to inhabit as children and as grown- ups too.
The other answer is to write the book; so I wrote Luka and the Fire of Life, and as a result spent much time wandering around wonderlands once again, the imaginary worlds we love to inhabit as children and as grown- ups too.
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Albus Dumbledore is murdered, and the Lord of the Rings plans the enslavement of the whole of Middle-earth. The flying carpet of King Solomon, which, according to the stories, was sixty miles long and sixty miles wide, once punished the ...
Albus Dumbledore is murdered, and the Lord of the Rings plans the enslavement of the whole of Middle-earth. The flying carpet of King Solomon, which, according to the stories, was sixty miles long and sixty miles wide, once punished the ...
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And at once they began to give up their deepest meanings, meanings previously obscured by faith. The great myths, Greek, Roman, Nordic, have survived the deaths of the religions that once sustained them because of the astonishing ...
And at once they began to give up their deepest meanings, meanings previously obscured by faith. The great myths, Greek, Roman, Nordic, have survived the deaths of the religions that once sustained them because of the astonishing ...
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... and the greed of the fisherman's wife in the Grimm story, culminating in her demand that she be made pope, which undoes the miracle of untold wealth granted to the fisherman by the talking flounder whose life he once spared.
... and the greed of the fisherman's wife in the Grimm story, culminating in her demand that she be made pope, which undoes the miracle of untold wealth granted to the fisherman by the talking flounder whose life he once spared.
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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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