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"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"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 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 (1930-2008)
• Introduction To The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. Iv
• Autobiography And The Novel
• Adaptation
• Notes On Sloth: From Saligia To Oblomov
• Hans Christian Andersen
• King Of The World By David Remnick
• Very Well Then I Contradict Myself
• PART THREE

• Truth
• Courage
• Texts For Pen
• 1. Pen And The Sword
• 2. Birth Of Pen World Voices
• 3. Arthur Miller Lecture, 2012
• 4. Pen World Voices Opening Night 2014
• 5. Pen World Voices Opening Night 2017
• Christopher Hitchens (1949
• 2011)
• Liberty Instinct
• Osama Bin Laden
• Ai Weiwei And Others
• Half-Woman God
• Nova Southeastern University Commencement Address, 2006
• Emory University Commencement Address, 2015
• PART FOUR
• Composite Artist: The Emperor Akbar And The Making Of The Hamzanama
• Am Rita Sher-Gil: Letters
• Bhupen Khakhar (1934
• 2003)
• Being Francesco Clemente: Self-Portraits, Gagosian Gallery, London, 2005
• Taryn Simon: An American Index Of The Hidden And Unfamiliar, Whitney Museum, New York, 2007
• Kara Walker At The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009
• Sebastiao Salgado
• Unbeliever's Christmas
• Carrie Fisher
• Pandemic: A Personal Engagement With The Coronavirus
• Proust Questionnaire: Vanity Fair.

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Author/Creator:

Rushdie, Salman , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Languages of truth: essays 2003-2020 [by Rushdie, S.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Languages of truth [by Rushdie, S.] (First edition; New York : Random House, [2021] — ISBN 9780593133170; LCCN 2020028493)

Subjects:

Speeches, addresses, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 01, 2021).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PR6068.U757 L36 2021eb

ISBNs:

9780593133187 (electronic book)
0593133188 (electronic book)
9780593133170 (hardcover, acid-free paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2020028494

OCLC Numbers:

1183399262

Other Control Numbers:

2587587 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302166948