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The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

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The Satanic Verses Quotes
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The Satanic Verses , a 1988 book by Salman Rushdie "'To be born again, sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die.'" Source: Chapter 1, "The Angel Gibreel" (first sentence). "The history of life was not the bumbling...


Author Biography

Name: Salman Rushdie
Variant Name: Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Birth Date: June 19, 1947
Place of Birth: Bombay, India
Nationality: Indian
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of (Ahmed) Salman Rushdie
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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...
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Biography of Salman Rushdie
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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...


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The Satanic Verses Information
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The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. The title refers to what are known as the satanic verses. According to early Muslim biographies of Muhammad, Muhammad was tricked...


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National Review
The Satanic Verses.
03/24/1989: 570 words, approx. 2 pages
The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie (Viking, 54 7 pp., $19.95) LIKE JOYCE'S Ulysses, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses is probably destined to be one of the leastread best-sellers of all time. Its main claim to fame is the violent exception that...
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The New Leader
The Satanic Verses. (book reviews)
02/20/1989: 1,381 words, approx. 5 pages
The Satanic Verses By Salman Rushdie Viking. 547 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Alan Wade Fiction writer, free-lance critic "'To BE BORN AGAIN,' sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, first you have to die."' So begins Salman Rushdie's controversial new novel, The...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Simona Sawhney
10,790 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following essay, Sawhney applies Georg Lukacs's and Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the novel to The Satanic Verses and discusses Rushdie's book as a hybrid of the novel genre.
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Critical Essay by Joel Kuortti
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In the following essay, Kuortti underscores the significance of language—particularly the power of naming—in The Satanic Verses.
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Critical Essay by Mark Davies
3,666 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Davies identifies and discusses aspects of the grotesque in The Satanic Verses.


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