Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is

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שיחה לא פשוטה עם סלמאן רושדי, שבה הוא מדבר על הדימוי הציבורי, על כתיבה ועל נסיון ההתנקשות האחרון בו.
סלמאן שרד עכשיו נסיון התנקשות של נער אמריקאי אחרי שבשנים האחרונות הוא כבר נרגע והתחיל להופיע בציבור. הוא מדבר על המשמעות של הנסיון הזה, על עצמו כדמות בעיניי כל העולם והאדם האמיתי שבפועל רצה ועדיין רוצה לכתוב יצירות מצחיקות ורגישות שלא קשורות לפסוקי השטן.
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Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as blasphemous and issued a fatwa calling for his assassination. Rushdie spent years trying to escape the shadow the fatwa cast on him, and for some time, he thought he succeeded. But in 2022, an assailant attacked him onstage at a speaking engagement in western New York and nearly killed him.

“I think now I’ll never be able to escape it. No matter what I’ve already written or may now write, I’ll always be the guy who got knifed,” he writes in his new memoir, “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.”

In this conversation, I asked Rushdie to reflect on his desire to escape the fatwa; the gap between the reputation of his novels and their actual merits; how his “shadow selves” became more real to millions than he was; how many of us in the internet age also have to contend with our many shadow selves; what Rushdie lives for now; and more.

Mentioned:

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Book Recommendations:

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith Grossman

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

The Trial by Franz Kafka

The Castle by Franz Kafka

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