Reviewers hailed Midnight's Children as a stylistic tour de force and many studies have focused on Rushdie's technical virtuosity and originality.
Rushdie is indeed not afraid to dazzle his readers with a rich excess. Some of the episodes of the novel are operatic in texture or have a dreamlike quality; still others use the form of the newsflash and newspaper report for startling effects. Rushdie is fond of juxtapositions, digressions, flashbacks, flash-forwards, and breathtaking changes of pace; but he can also offer pages of straightforward narrative and sections.....
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