Languages of Truth
Random House USA Inc (Verlag)
978-0-593-24322-0 (ISBN)
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Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, 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 Truth offers 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.
lt;b>Salman Rushdie is the author of fourteen novels Luka and the Fire of Life; Grimus; Midnight's Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker); Shame; The Satanic Verses; Haroun and the Sea of Stories; The Moor's Last Sigh; The Ground Beneath Her Feet; Fury; Shalimar the Clown; The Enchantress of Florence; Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights; The Golden House; and Quichotte and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published four works of nonfiction Joseph Anton; The Jaguar Smile; Imaginary Homelands; and Step Across This Line and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.05.2021 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 420 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | Anthology • autobiographies • best books for book clubs • Biographies and Memoirs • Biography • book lover gifts • books for dad • Censorship • Cervantes • Culture • dad gifts • Essay • essay collection • Essays • Eudora Welty • exile • gifts for book lovers • gifts for readers • gifts for women • language • Literary criticism • literary fiction • Literary gifts • Literature • literature book • Memoir • memoir books • Memoirs • Migration • mom gifts • Philip Roth • reading gifts • Salman Rushdie • Salman Rushdie books • Samuel Beckett • Shakespeare • Society • Writing |
| ISBN-10 | 0-593-24322-6 / 0593243226 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-593-24322-0 / 9780593243220 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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