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65/100Critics
2/100Scholars
Author:
Salman Rushdie
Publisher:
Random House
Date:
May 25, 2021
The celebrated author of The Satanic Verses and Quichotte offers a collection of essays, criticism and speeches that explore his personal history, relationship to literature, thoughts on writing craft and takes on politics.
What The Reviewers Say
If you’ve read Languages of Truth all the way from start to finish, you’ll be feeling bloated (did you really need that extra helping of commencement address?) yet admiring of your insistent, generous host.
Despite its homage to happenstance, a consistent design runs through this miscellany. From the Indian-Persian-Arabic tales of the One Thousand and One Nights to classic American fiction with its 'comedy and tragedy of the reinvented self,' Mr. Rushdie salutes the 'protean' and 'metamorphic' art of change and multiplicity.
I read Rushdie’s arguments with much interest and little agreement, as Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. used to say. He is fencing with a poorly stuffed straw man.
... Rushdie serves up a confused vision of this century, presenting a self-absorbed and exhausted thinker whose eye has been tracking yesterday’s concerns.
