… Rushdie claims that The Satanic Verses was his "least political book". It was "an artistic engagement with the phenomenon of revelation", albeit from the perspective of an "unbeliever", but "a proper one nonetheless. How could that be thought offensive?" But then authorial intentions barely seemed to matter to readers bringing to the book their own particular backgrounds, worldviews and prejudices.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Living in hiding …
… Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie - review | Books | The Guardian. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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