Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002Knopf Canada, 5 nov. 2010 - 416 pages From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches and articles essential for our times. Step Across This Line showcases the other side of one of fiction’s most astonishing conjurors. On display is Salman Rushdie’s incisive, thoughtful and generous mind, in prose that is as entertaining as it is topical. The world is here, captured in pieces on a dazzling array of subjects: from New York’s Amadou Diallo case to the Wizard of Oz, from U2 to fifty years of Indian writing, from a tribute to Angela Carter to the struggle to film Midnight’s Children. The title essay was originally delivered at Yale as the 2002 Tanner lecture on human values, and examines the changing meaning of frontiers in the modern world -- moral and metaphorical frontiers as well as physical ones. The collection chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual journeys, but it is also an intimate invitation into his life: he explores his relationship to India through a moving diary of his first visit there in over a decade, “A Dream of Glorious Return.” Step Across This Line also includes “Messages From the Plague Years,” a historic set of letters, articles and reflections on life under the fatwa. Gathered together for the first time, this is Rushdie’s humane, intelligent and angry response to a grotesque threat, aimed not just at him but at free expression itself. Step Across This Line, Salman Rushdie’s first collection of non-fiction in a decade, has the same energy, imagination and erudition as his astounding novels -- along with some very strong opinions. |
Table des matières
Out of Kansas | |
The Best of Young British Novelists | |
Angela Carter | |
Beirut Blues | |
Arthur Miller at Eighty | |
In Defense of the Novel Yet Again | |
Notes on Writing and the Nation | |
Influence | |
CrashTHE DEATH OF PRINCESS DIANA | |
The Peoples GameA FANS NOTES | |
Farming Ostriches | |
A Commencement AddressFOR BARD COLLEGE NY | |
Imagine Theres No HeavenA LETTER TO THE SIX BILLIONTH WORLD CITIZEN | |
Damme This Is the Oriental Scene for You | |
Indias Fiftieth Anniversary | |
Gandhi Now | |
Adapting Midnights Children | |
Reservoir FrogsOR PLACES CALLED MAMAS | |
Heavy ThreadsEARLY ADVENTURES IN THE RAG TRADE | |
In the Voodoo Lounge | |
Rock MusicA Sleeve Note | |
U2 | |
An Alternative Career | |
On Leavened Bread | |
On Being Photographed | |
The Taj Mahal | |
The Baburnama | |
A Dream of Glorious Return | |
Part One | |
Part Two | |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |
PERMISSIONS | |
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