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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2014 17:00:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2014 17:21:50 GMT
Excellent, but is this recent? Salman Rushdie dropped out of the public eye in most places quite a few years ago. I imagine that the new young adult generation would even have trouble figuring out who he is.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2014 17:39:41 GMT
It's from Step Across This Line, his collection of non-fiction writing. Not recent, no, but he has been a very vocal critic of fundamentalism in whatever form in recent years. And I doubt if the new adult generation even reads books, so I don't think that's much of a criteria to judge any novelist on.
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Post by bjd on Aug 20, 2014 7:47:00 GMT
Well, he had to drop out of the public eye because of that ludicrous fatwa placed on him by Ali Khomeini and his fanatic followers.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 8:34:50 GMT
The fatwa was essentially called off somewhere in the early 2000s, with it being revived from time to time by various clerics for transgressions, usually not involving Rushdie directly, but he remains a good target. His life has improved markedly over the last two decades, with him acting in movies like Bridget Jones' Diary and Then She Found Me, and marrying and wooing models and actresses. The pressure to hide has disappeared and he seems to be everywhere these days. He's a fixture on tv panel shows and on the New York literary scene.
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Post by bjd on Aug 20, 2014 10:57:16 GMT
It sounds as though he is making up for lost time. Or living to the full while he can -- since his good friend Christopher Hitchens died a couple of years ago. That concentrates the mind.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 17:18:48 GMT
The controversy over the years probably helped to increase his income ten or twentyfold, which is why he never complains about it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 17:53:01 GMT
Jeesh, you guys are harsh!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 15, 2022 19:56:47 GMT
Salman Rushdie is no longer out of the public eye. The Satanic Verses has become the #1 best seller in France.
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Post by questa on Aug 18, 2022 0:26:06 GMT
As I was living in a Muslim environment at the time, I kept away from the subject in conversation. Not so my fellow workers. They spoke very disparagingly of Khomeini and his "stupidity", what a fool he was, how he had set the course of Islam back centuries. Several offered to shelter me if the young fanatics in our midst tried to hassle me.
There are just a few dipsticks that give the religion a bad name, the rest of them are ordinary people whose sense of hospitality is greater than any I have seen before.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 21, 2022 13:00:21 GMT
With the effective ban on abortion in the US, the Christofascist branch of the fundie family has once again proven themselves also capable of great harm.
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