Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002

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Knopf 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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À propos de l'auteur (2010)

Salman Rushdie is the award-winning author of eight novels: Fury, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the “Booker of Bookers”), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Grimus, and Haroun and the Sea of Stories; one collection of short stories, East, West; a book of reportage, The Jaguar Smile, and an earlier collection of essays, Imaginary Homelands. He lives in New York and London.

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