Which famous book has Salman Rushdie never read?
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- čas přidán 17. 08. 2017
- What would he be doing if he wasn't writing? How many books does he own? We find out, ahead of the release of his new book, The Golden House. po.st/GoldenHouse
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When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult children assume new identities, taking 'Roman' names, and move into a grand mansion in downtown Manhattan. Arriving shortly after the inauguration of Barack Obama, he and his sons, each extraordinary in his own right, quickly establish themselves at the apex of New York society.
The story of the Golden family is told from the point of view of their Manhattanite neighbour and confidant, René, an aspiring filmmaker who finds in the Goldens the perfect subject. René chronicles the undoing of the house of Golden: the high life of money, of art and fashion, a sibling quarrel, an unexpected metamorphosis, the arrival of a beautiful woman, betrayal and murder, and far away, in their abandoned homeland, some decent intelligence work.
Invoking literature, pop culture, and the cinema, Rushdie spins the story of the American zeitgeist over the last eight years, hitting every beat: the rise of the birther movement, the Tea Party, Gamergate and identity politics; the backlash against political correctness; the ascendency of the superhero movie, and, of course, the insurgence of a ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain wearing make-up and with coloured hair.
In a new world order of alternative truths, Salman Rushdie has written the ultimate novel about identity, truth, terror and lies. A brilliant, heartbreaking realist novel that is not only uncannily prescient but shows one of the world’s greatest storytellers working at the height of his powers.
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I wonder how many little-known books are in the libraries today that will become "classics" in the future. Especially books not translated in English yet.
His books are awesome.
Legend
Such a brilliant Writer! 💙
If one living writer deserves the Nobel Prize for Literarture, and for the reasons the Nobel is supposed to be awarded (go re-read Alfred Nobel's testament, Swedish Academy), it surely is Sir Salman! However, Sweden is too politically correct and Islamophile today to do so. Even admitting that some Muslims might have issues with one or two phrases in a 72 page section of a 547 page book he once wrote (not to put too fine a point to it, as a practicing Catholic I was horrified by Charlie Hebdo's cover-cartoon against clerical pedophilia showing God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit engaged in serial sodomy, I was also offended by Kazanzakis' Last Temptation of Christ, but I won't ever dream of demeaning the Greek's greatness as a writer or the Frenchmen's right to lampoon my religion); Rushdie is the author todate of 14 novels, almost all of them internationally acclaimed masterpieces. Taking into account his essays and short stories, his oeuvre probably already covers 12000 pages or so, and he won't be awarded the Nobel, lest 2 or 3 lines in all that staggering body of work cause some Islamic terrorist to target the Swedish Academy the day after the announcement. Dear Sir Salman, take heart, Count Leo Tolstoy (though he lived 7 years into the foundation of the Nobel awards) was not given the Nobel for Literature, nor our Mahatma Gandhi, for Peace.
I'm sure Sir Salman would not be much disappointed at not receiving the prize in his lifetime.
@Michael Zhu Totally agree, Mike! I have my reservations about Phil Roth, though; I've found most of his work too self-referential for my taste. Don DeLillo should be awarded; won't say he were better than Rushdie, they're just very different, Don's range is more limited than Sir Salman's, although he certainly is a past master in terms of weaving magic with his words. I enjoy both, and would love to see both duly honoured.
Honor should be bestowed upon those who respect and he is not one of them.There are many more deserving than him without Satanic verses he would have not gotten the stage presence he has been given.Period
I see Muslims talking about and demanding respect alot.
Respect can't just be demanded and commanded. It is won by behaving respectable.
@@ramonek9109 well Hindu’s demand free hand like they deserve to be respected not Muslims show me where you found a Muslim demanding respect, Looks like you have forgotten history of Muslims they were given respect by their subjects and Neibours alike for the reason you just explained. You need to go back and read history and clear your dumb founded analogy that a sect or people demand respect.
I preferred Love in the Time of Cholera
It is indeed a tougher job to evaluate and assess a writer of the stature of Salman Rushdie; to comprehend his mind and vision; his psyche, persona, mouthpiece and spokesman, as his is a complex space drawing and deriving from history, art, and culture, local, national, continental and postcolonial as well, but is very difficult to say what he is, a Kubla Khan or a Dr.Faustus for the kiss of Helen or a Sohrab and Rustum fighting, a bundle of thesis and anti-thesis like George Bernard Shawian or one of contraries and contradictions? What is he indeed, a Charles Lamb of Dream Children: A Reverie or a Bollywood man under romance and fantasy? Or just like William Hazlitt's Indian Jugglers he juggling with the balls, seeing the acrobatic skills of the tightrope walkers? Or a magician, a master of black art ? Who is this writer Lawrentine, Shawian, Orwellian? Who is this hero going from Bollywood to Hollywood? Clutching freedom of speech and expression, fearing none whoever comes it on the way, so brave and undaunted and daring, this is none but Sir Salman Rushdie.
Ahhh, so that guy who stabbed him was just a George Eliot fan . . .
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I'd be surprised if the guy who stabbed him has ever read a book in his life.
I am from Mexico. Here in latin america people who know will tell you everytime that 100 years of solitude is crap. Wonder why this guy´s books suck.....
Well if people there are as dumb as you then no wonder they don’t like it…..
@@rishabhaniket1952 I guess Borges was just as dumb as me. As well as Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz and Bolaño. Which I am sure you have not read, because you are stupid. I can tell because you like García M.
unreadable trash for urban intellectuals who feign reverence for the simple wisdom of peasants
I'm from Colombia, and knowing many people from other countries, never met anyone who thinks like you about Hundred years of solitude, but, who knows, maybe I havent met the right people
@@jnbfilm56 read the bible and type in tortured in hell lived to tell. and Shawn weed. repent and believe the gospel
I highly recommend that he reads the bible he will find that its God's word THE ONLY BOOK THAT MATTERS. as for those who dont believe in God. type in tortured in hell lived to tell and Shawn weed. Jesus died for your sins people wake up.
Deuteronomy 20:16-18 God orders the Israelites to "not leave alive anything that breathes"....
The Bible is a fascinating book but there's really no need to believe any of its supernatural claims. At least, if you're a thinking adult.
JESUS CHRIST IS LAME.
only book that matters for those who want to live in fear and not live worthwhile lives.
lmao