Joseph anton a memoir salman rushdie7/5/2023 The former he describes as "the trans-lingual creator of wanderers… of secret agents in a world of killers and bombs, and of at least one immortal coward, hiding from his shame". Doris Lessing urged him to tell the whole truth, like Rousseau, but he failed, as she did.įor his double life, he was obliged to turn himself into a fictional character and he became Joseph Anton, after Conrad and Chekhov. He kept a journal, but, being a clever and would-be honest man, he knows we deceive and bowdlerise even in our journals and admits it. Having resisted commercial attempts to fictionalise his life, he has attempted to tell his own truth. Rushdie has now told his version of events and it is more gripping than any spy story. Rushdie's bold, complex and literary novel, The Satanic Verses, was hijacked by the exterminating angels of wrath, a wrath that still flames around us. It'll get sorted." As we know, it took years to sort and arguments against the dying ayatollah's death sentence span out of control into impassioned and often intemperate debates about the blasphemy laws, freedom of speech, the nature of fiction, cultural relativism, Islam, the narrowing of national identities and the alleged cost to the British nation of Stan, his colleagues and Operation Malachite. "It can't be allowed… threatening a British citizen. His first reaction to the fatwa was simple. O ne of the heroes of Rushdie's memoir is a handsome, tennis-playing, gun-carrying police protection officer called Stan, which may or may not be his real name.
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