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050 00 PR6068.U757|bL36 2021
100 1 Rushdie, Salman
245 10 Languages of truth :|bessays 2003-2020 /|cSalman Rushdie.
250 1st ed.
260 New York :|bRandom House,|c[2021].
300 xi, 356 p. ;|c25 cm.
500 KH-AUL-8.
505 0 Part One -- Wonder Tales -- Proteus -- Heraclitus --
Another Writer's Beginnings -- Part Two -- Philip Roth --
Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five -- Samuel Beckett's
Novels -- Cervantes and Shakespeare -- Gabo and I --
Harold Pinter -- Paris Review, The Art of Fiction, Vol. IV
-- Autobiography and the Novel -- Adaptation -- Notes on
Sloth -- Hans Christian Andersen -- David Remnick's King
of the World -- Very Well Then, I Contradict Myself --
Part Three -- Truth -- Courage -- Texts for PEN --
Christopher Hitchens -- The Liberty Instinct -- Osama Bin
Laden -- Ai Weiwei and Others -- The Half-Woman God --
Nova Southeastern University Commencement Address 2006 --
Emory University Commencement Address 2015 -- Part Four --
The Composite Artist: the Emperor Akbar and the Making of
the Hamzanama -- Amrita Sher-Gil: Letters -- Bhupen
Khakhar (1934-2003) -- Being Francesco Clemente: Self-
Portraits at the Gagosian Gallery, London, 2005 -- Taryn
Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar at
the Whitney Museum, New York, 2007 -- Kara Walker at the
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009 -- SebastiĆ£o Salgado --
The Unbeliever's Christmas -- Carrie Fisher -- Pandemic: A
Personal Engagement with the Coronavirus -- The Proust
Questionnaire: Vanity Fair.
520 "Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the
highest order, illuminating deep 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 2019, Languages of Truth chronicles Rushdie's own
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
deeply 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, often by telling vivid, sometimes humorous stories of
his own personal encounters with them, whether on the page
or in person. He delves deeper than ever before into the
nature of "truth," revels in the vibrant malleability of
language, and the creative lines that can join art and
life, and he looks anew at migration, multiculturalism and
censorship. The ideas, true stories and arguments
presented here are at once revelatory, funny and eye-
opening, enlivened on every page by Rushdie's signature
wit and dazzling voice, making this volume a genuine
pleasure to read"--|cProvided by publisher.
650 0 English fiction|y21st century