Salman Rushdie: Languages of Truth, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Languages of Truth
- Essays 2003-2020
- Verlag:
- Random House LLC US, 02/2023
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593133194
- Artikelnummer:
- 10906050
- Umfang:
- 368 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 367 g
- Maße:
- 196 x 127 mm
- Stärke:
- 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 7.2.2023
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Klappentext
Newly 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 Truthoffers 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.
Biografie
Salman Rushdie, geboren 1947 in Bombay, studierte in Cambridge Geschichte. Mit seinem Roman 'Mitternachtskinder' wurde er weltberühmt. Seine Bücher erhielten renommierte internationale Auszeichnungen, u.a. den Booker Prize, und sind in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt. 1996 wurde ihm der Aristeion-Literaturpreis der EU für sein Gesamtwerk zuerkannt. 2008 schlug ihn die Queen zum Ritter. Salman Rushdie erhielt 2014 den Hans Christian Andersen Award und den PEN/Pinter Prize.