The Ground Beneath Her Feet , a 1999 book by Salman Rushdie "The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame." Source: Chapter 2, "Melodies and Silences" "Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the...
Salman Rushdie embodies in his own life and in his writings the conundrums of the postcolonial author, writing within the tradition of Indo-English literature while simultaneously appealing to the conventions and tastes of a worldwide, especially Western...
The Indian/British author Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 1947) was a political parablist whose work often focused on outrages of history and particularly of religions. His book The Satanic Verses earned him a death sentence from the Iranian Ayatollah Ruholla...
The Ground Beneath Her Feet is a novel written by Salman Rushdie. Published in 2000, it is a variation on the Orpheus/Eurydice myth with rock music replacing Orpheus' lyre. The myth works as a red thread from which the author sometimes strays, but to...
Salman Rushdie. Holt, $26 (576p) ISBN 0-8050-5308-5 Time and space, understood conventionally, have never been enough for Rushdie's antic imagination, and here he needs two parallel universes to contain this playful, highly allusive journey through the last 40 years of pop culture. Ormus...
There's something about Sir Salman Rushdie's novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet that fascinates the composer Victoria Borisova- Ollas. Manchester audiences became aware of her obsession when the Halle featured her short orchestral piece Open Ground last season. In the opening weekend of the...
In the following negative review, Mishra asserts that “with its banal obsessions and empty bombast, its pseudo-characters and non-events, its fundamental shapelessness and incoherence, The Ground beneath Her Feet does little more than echo the white noise of the modern world.”
In the following essay, Allen notes the excess of showy technique, clever references, and mythological allusions in The Ground beneath Her Feet and contends that the novel lacks depth.
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