Talpa alatt a föld

by Salman Rushdie

Overview

Salman Rushdie világokon átívelő és kultúrákat összefogó regényében szinte a lehetetlent kísérti. Hőseit, Ormus-Orpheuszt és Víná-Eurüdikét előbb – mint a kor ünnepelt rocksztárjait – fölrepíti az égi és földi csillagok közé, ahol galaxisok ütköznek egymásnak és kebelezik be egymást, majd leviszi őket a föld alá, az Alvilágba, ahonnan – akárhogy szeretné is a mítoszokhoz szokott olvasó – nincs visszatérés.

Mindezt Ráí, a láthatatlanná válás művészetét tökélyre fejlesztő fényképész, a szerző alteregója meséli el, aki ugyan soha nem jut el azokba a magasságokba, amelyekbe a két sztár, viszont nem is nyeli el úgy a talpa alatt megnyíló föld, mint Vínát, akinek szerelme után egész életében áhítozik.

Salman Rushdie 1947-ben, nyolc héttel India függetlenségének kikiáltása előtt született Bombayban. Tizennégy éves korától Angliában végezte tanulmányait, Cambridge-ben történésznek tanult. 1981-ben Az éjfél gyermekeivel robbant be az irodalmi köztudatba. Olyannyira, hogy azonnal meg is kapta érte a Booker-díjat, sőt huszonöt esztendővel később, amikor az összes addigi nyertest versenyeztették, még az úgynevezett Bookerek Bookerét is. A könyv amerikai megjelenése után a New York Times Book Review azt írta róla, hogy &quo;olyan, mintha egy kontinens rátalálna a hangjára”.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789632277950
Publisher:	Helikon Kiadó
Publication date:	04/18/2016
Series:	Talpa alatt a föld
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB
Language:	Hungarian

About the Author

Born in Mumbai, India, and educated in the U.K., multi-award-winning novelist Salman Rushdie is considered one of the most important and influential writers of contemporary English-language fiction.

Rushdie freelanced for two London advertising firms before turning to a full-time writing career. He made his literary debut in 1975 with Grimus, a sci-fi fantasy that made a very small splash in publishing circles. However, he hit the jackpot with his second novel, Midnight's Children, an ambitious allegory that parallels the turbulent history of India before and after partition. Widely considered Rushdie's magnum opus, Midnight's Children was awarded the Booker Prize in 1981. (Twelve years later, a panel of judges named it the best overall novel to have won the Booker Prize since the award's inception in 1975; and in 2005, Time included it on a list of the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923.)

Undoubtedly, though, the book that put Rushdie squarely on the cultural radar screen was The Satanic Verses. Published in 1988 and partially inspired by the life of the prophet Muhammad, this erudite study of good and evil won the Whitbread Book Award, but achieved far more notoriety when Muslim fundamentalists condemned it for its blasphemous portrayal of Islam. The book was banned in many Muslim countries, a fatwa was issued by the Iranian Ayatollah, and a multimillion dollar bounty was placed on Rushdie's head. The novelist spent much of the 1990s in hiding, under the protection of the British government. (In 1998, Iran officially lifted the fatwa, but threats against Rushdie's life still reverberate throughout the Muslim world.)

Even without the controversy inspired by The Satanic Verses, Rushdie's literary fame would be assured. His novels comprise a unique body of work that draws from fantasy, mythology, religion, and magic realism, blending them all with staggering imagination and comic brilliance. He has created his own idiom, pushing the boundaries of language with dazzling wordplay and a widely admired "chutnification" of history. His books have won most major awards in Europe and the U.K. and have garnered praise from critics around the world. Britain's Financial Times called him "Our most exhilaratingly inventive prose stylist." Time magazine raved, "No novelist currently writing in English does so with more energy, intelligence and allusiveness than Rushdie." And the writer Christopher Hitchens lamented in the Progressive that were it not for the death threats against him, Rushdie would surely be a Nobel laureate by now.

In addition to his bestselling novels, Rushdie has also produced essays, criticism, and a book of children's fiction. In 2007, Rushdie was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. The citation reads: "Ahmed Salman Rushdie -- author, for services to literature."

Hometown:

New York, New York

Date of Birth:

June 19, 1947

Place of Birth:

Bombay, Maharashtra, India

Education:

M.A. in History, King's College, University of Cambridge