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12 de oct. de 2012 · Read all of “Joseph Anton,” then, for its lessons in how books are used, and whether they matter. JOSEPH ANTON. A Memoir. By Salman Rushdie. 636 pp. Random House. $30. Donna Rifkind is writing ...
Praise for Joseph Anton "A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie's work throughout his career."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year."
18 de sept. de 2012 · In his memoir, where Rushdie bizarrely decides to write about himself, or "Joseph Anton", his Conrad-and-Chekhov-inspired alias, in the third person, he repeatedly points to his early intuitions ...
18 de sept. de 2012 · Joseph Anton: A Memoir. Joseph Anton. : From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading ...
Plot Summary. Joseph Anton: A Memoir is the 2012 memoir of British-Indian contemporary novelist Salman Rushdie. Its title refers to the pseudonym Rushdie used while in hiding, after the Islamic Republic of Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, enacted a political and religious injunction (called a “fatwa”) against him.
In this memoir, Rushdie tells for the first time the story of his crucial battle for freedom of speech. He shares the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained ...
22 de sept. de 2012 · Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie – review. Salman Rushdie's account of surviving a fatwa is brutally honest and profound. Margaret Drabble. Sat 22 Sep 2012 19.05 EDT. O ne of the heroes of Rushdie ...
