Couverture de Languages of Truth

Languages of Truth

Essays 2003-2020

 Aperçu
Offre à durée limitée

3 mois d'Audible Standard gratuits

3 mois pour 0,00 €/mois, puis 5,99 €/mois. Possibilité de résilier chaque mois.
Essayez pour 0,00 €/mois
L'offre prend fin le 15 Juillet 2026 à 23 h 59.
Plus d'options d'achat

Languages of Truth

De : Salman Rushdie
Lu par : Salman Rushdie, Raj Ghatak
Essayez pour 0,00 €/mois

3 mois pour 0,99 €/mois, puis 5,99 €/mois. Possibilité de résilier chaque mois. Offre valable jusqu'au 15 juillet 2026 à 23 h 59.

Acheter pour 19,99 €

Acheter pour 19,99 €

Brought to you by Penguin.

From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture

Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, including several never previously in print, Languages of Truth chronicles a period of momentous cultural shifts. Across a wide variety of subjects, Rushdie delves into the nature of storytelling as a deeply human need, and what emerges is a love letter to literature itself. Throughout, Rushdie shares his personal encounters, on the page and in person, with storytellers from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison, and revels in the creative lines that can join art and life.

Always attuned to the malleability of language, Rushdie considers the nature of truth, and looks anew at migration, multiculturalism and censorship. Written with the author's signature wit and energy, Languages of Truth offers pleasure and insight in equal measure, confirming Rushdie's place as one of the most original and important thinkers of our time.

© Salman Rushdie 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

 Art Politique et gouvernement Sciences sociales
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1

Commentaires

Salman Rushdie is one of the greatest writers of our age; he is a giant of literature. (Neil Gaiman)
Rushdie is vital, expansive, the critic as storyteller, championing his subjects with gusto... Rushdie is a still a writer to be reckoned with. (Claire Lowdon)
Powerful... Languages of Truth feels like essential reading in this time, reminding us that the stories we have told each other over millennia are universal, even if this shared heritage is often lost or forgotten in today's angry, fractured world. (Nilanjana Roy)
Probably the best nonfiction he [Rushdie] has written in years... Rushdie is happy to record just what he sees and feels. You sense that he has arrived somewhere new...a sign of good things to come. (Abhrajyoti Chakraborty)
Rushdie's writing is erudite and full of sympathy, brimming with insight and wit . . . Fans will be delighted . . . [A] mesmerizing collection.
Wide-ranging nonfiction pieces by the distinguished novelist, unified by his commitment to artistic freedom and his adamant opposition to censorship in any form . . . Formidably erudite, engagingly passionate, and endlessly informative: a literary treat.
Enchanting reading... Rushdie is worth listening to. (Fred Kelly)
Tout
Le plus pertinent
Sounds like a tasty morsel. Is this the actual chapter title, or a typo?
The first chapter of this collection transported me back to my first reading of Midnight’s Children. Thank you Mr Rushdie I owe my career to you.

Philip Broth!

Une erreur s'est produite. Réessayez dans quelques minutes.