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Joseph Anton: Random House Publishing Group

Autor Salman Rushdie
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 sep 2013

Nivel de studiu: referință profesională și studii literare. Joseph Anton reprezintă documentul autobiografic definitoriu pentru înțelegerea unuia dintre cele mai critice momente din istoria literară modernă: „Afacerea Rushdie”. Remarcăm modul în care autorul alege să își spună povestea la persoana a treia, adoptând pseudonimul impus de necesitățile de securitate — un omagiu adus lui Conrad și Cehov — pentru a distanța naratorul de trauma personală a celor nouă ani petrecuți în clandestinitate. Reținem că această lucrare nu este doar o cronică a supraviețuirii, ci un eseu amplu despre integritatea intelectuală sub asediu. Textul pendulează între detaliul mundan al vieții sub pază armată și mizele filosofice înalte ale libertății de expresie, oferind o perspectivă onestă asupra momentelor de disperare, dar și a solidarității primite din partea comunității literare internaționale. Această ediție publicată de Vintage completează perspectiva documentară oferită de The Rushdie Letters, adăugând dimensiunea subiectivă și psihologică pe care o corespondență oficială nu o poate surprinde. Dacă în Midnight's Children autorul folosea realismul magic pentru a sonda istoria Indiei, în Joseph Anton el recurge la un realism crud, aproape cinematografic, pentru a cartografia propria sa istorie fragmentată. Cartea se poziționează ca o piesă centrală în opera lui Salman Rushdie, explicând tranziția sa de la romancierul premiat la simbolul global al rezistenței prin cuvânt, o temă care rămâne centrală și în lucrări recente precum Victory City.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812982602
ISBN-10: 0812982606
Pagini: 658
Dimensiuni: 131 x 203 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Random House
Colecția Random House Publishing Group
Seria Random House Publishing Group


De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui dorește să înțeleagă mecanismele cenzurii și prețul libertății în lumea contemporană. Cititorul câștigă acces la culisele unei existențe forțate să se ascundă pentru o operă de ficțiune, descoperind cum se poate continua munca creativă sub amenințare constantă. Este un studiu de caz esențial despre curajul intelectual și despre rolul scriitorului ca martor al epocii sale.


Despre autor

Sir Salman Rushdie este un romancier și eseist britanic-american de origine indiană, recunoscut la nivel mondial pentru stilul său ce îmbină realismul magic cu ficțiunea istorică. A devenit o figură centrală a literaturii contemporane odată cu Midnight's Children, distins cu Booker Prize. Viața sa a fost marcată de controversa stârnită de „Versetele Satanice”, care a dus la emiterea unei fatwa împotriva sa în 1989. Distins cu titlul de Cavaler în 2007 pentru servicii aduse literaturii și membru al Royal Society of Literature, Rushdie rămâne una dintre cele mai influente voci ale intelectualității globale, fiind un apărător vocal al libertății de exprimare.


Recenzii

“A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie’s work throughout his career.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
 
“A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
 
“Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book.”—USA Today
 
“Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie’s ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written.”—The Independent (UK)
 
“A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty.”—Le Point (France)
 
“Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie’s eye is a camera lens —firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
 
“Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book.”de Volkskrant (The Netherlands)
 
“One of the best memoirs you may ever read.”DNA (India)
 
“Extraordinary . . . Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between . . . moments of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing—at all costs—any curtailment on a writer’s freedom.”The Boston Globe


From the Hardcover edition.

Notă biografică

Salman Rushdie is the author of eleven novels—Grimus, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, and Luka and the Fire of Life—and one collection of short stories: East, West. He has also published three works of nonfiction: The Jaguar Smile, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981ߝ1991, and Step Across This Line, and coedited two anthologies, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a former president of American PEN.

Descriere scurtă

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPage

On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being “against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran.”
 
So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov—Joseph Anton.
 
How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom.
 
It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.

Praise for Joseph Anton
 
“A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie’s work throughout his career.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
 
“A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year.”—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
 
“Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book.”—USA Today
 
“Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie’s ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written.”—The Independent (UK)
 
“A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty.”—Le Point (France)
 
“Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie’s eye is a camera lens —firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus.”—Los Angeles Review of Books
 
“Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book.”de Volkskrant (The Netherlands)
 
“One of the best memoirs you may ever read.”DNA (India)
 
“Extraordinary . . . Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between . . . moments of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing—at all costs—any curtailment on a writer’s freedom.”The Boston Globe

Descriere

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On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a death sentence. This book offers an account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a decade.