Salman Rushdie's Knife is a reckoning with his reader, and it is written with resentment, writes Anna Moloney.
“Conversely, imagine “the enemy” as conceived by a man of ressentiment—and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived “the evil enemy,” “the evil one”—and indeed as the fundamental concept frem which he then derives, as an afterimage and counterinstance, a “good one’—himself.” – Nietzsche Salman Rushdie is a funny guy. I wouldn’t say More
Sir Salman Rushdie has said writing a book about his knife attack was a device to give him back “power” over his own life.
On August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie, one of the world’s best-known writers, was attacked and nearly killed by a young man with a knife. Rushdie has written of that harrowing day and all that’s followed in a new book. He discussed it with Jeffrey Brown for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
They had only been married for 11 months when the world-famous novelist was attacked by a frenzied knifeman. His wife remembers the intense drama of hearing the news, and the traumatic aftermathI woke early and alone on the sunny morning of Friday 12 August 2022. I was having coffee at the moment my husband, the Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, was nearly killed in a stabbing on stage in Chautauqua, New York.This was the last morning, innocent and ordinary, before my life was shattered by the 27...
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“'Words are the only victors,' Rushdie wrote in his last novel, 'Victory City.'"