In the aftermath of the assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie by a young Islamist on August 12, in New York State, a good part of the general public, as well as the youngest, rediscovered or learned of the existence of this great writer, victim of obscurantism, religious fanaticism, or discovered his work.
It was time.
Stabbed fifteen times, the author of
Satanic Verses
, targeted by a fatwa in 1989, has since lost the use of one eye and one hand.
In 1996, Rushdie took part in the Proust Questionnaire game for the monthly
Vanity Fair
, and the question "
What trait do you most deplore about yourself?"
“, he had simply answered:”
The volubility
“.
This generous volubility, this erudite eloquence, we find them in the third volume of his essays,
Languages of truth
, collecting articles, prefaces, chronicles, university conferences, published or given between 2003 and 2020. Rushdie makes arrow of all wood there, wielding with an amazing...
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