The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses , Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is “not quite Pakistan.” In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men–one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure–Rushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and...
The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses , Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is “not quite Pakistan.” In this dazzling tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men–one a celebrated wager of war, the other a debauched lover of pleasure–Rushdie brilliantly portrays a world caught between honor and humiliation–“shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.” Shame is an astonishing story that grows more timely by the day.
The air there is full of unasked questions. But their smell is faint, and the flowers in the many maturing gardens, the trees lining the avenues, the perfumes worn by the beautiful soignee ladies of the neighbourhood quite overpower this other, too-abstract odour.
You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.
Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.
Shame: a short word, but one containing encyclopaedias of nuance. It was not only shame that his mothers forbade him to feel, but also embarrassment, discomfiture, decency, modesty, shyness, the sense of having an ordained place in the world, and other dialects of emotion for which English has no counterparts. (查看原文)
rushdie is brilliant, writing a fairy tale about the east without falling into the pit hole of orientalism narrative through references to western historical and literary canons; keen awareness about ...rushdie is brilliant, writing a fairy tale about the east without falling into the pit hole of orientalism narrative through references to western historical and literary canons; keen awareness about self and positionality ; intricate play about cultural and political identity(展开)
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unbelievably rich
0 有用 SunnyHua 2022-11-11 04:28:28 美国
rushdie is brilliant, writing a fairy tale about the east without falling into the pit hole of orientalism narrative through references to western historical and literary canons; keen awareness about ... rushdie is brilliant, writing a fairy tale about the east without falling into the pit hole of orientalism narrative through references to western historical and literary canons; keen awareness about self and positionality ; intricate play about cultural and political identity (展开)