Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, KBE (English pronunciation: /sælˈmɑːn ˈrʊʃdi/[1]; born 19 June 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. He achieved notability with his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), which won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. His style is often classified as magical realism mixed with historical fiction, and a dominant theme of his work is the story of the many connections, disruptions and migrations between the Eastern and Western world.
His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of The Satanic Verses controversy, with protests from Muslims in several countries. Some of the protests were violent, with Rushdie facing death threats and a fatwā issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran, in February 1989.
He was appointed a Knight Bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to literature" in June 2007.[2] He holds the rank Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France. He began a five-year term as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emory University in 2007.[3] In May 2008 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2008, The Times ranked Rushdie thirteenth on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[4] His latest novel is The Enchantress of Florence, published in June 2008.[5]
Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent - and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem's gifts - inner ear and wildly sensitive sense of smell - we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of the 20th century.
=2000年春,上海译文出版社约我翻译英国作家萨曼•拉什迪的代表作《午夜的孩子》。当时,我除教学任务之外,正在翻译一部十九世纪的经典名著时间极为紧张。不过,在再三考虑之后,我还是把这个繁重的任务接了下来。因为我觉得,像《午夜的孩子》这样一部举世公认的当代名著,...
評分英籍印裔小说家萨尔曼•拉什迪,与V.S奈保尔和石黑一雄并称“英国移民文学三剑客”。他1981年出版的长篇《午夜之子》(此为台湾译名,大陆刘凯芳教授译作《午夜的孩子》,但因政治和宗教因素,未被批准出版。网上有电子版本。),使他一举成名,得以与加西亚•马尔克斯、...
評分英国作家萨尔曼•鲁西迪的每部作品几乎都是布克奖热门入围作品。 《午夜之子》于1981年获布克奖,1993年,鲁西迪就又凭借此作品获得 “布克奖中的特别奖”,此奖当时为纪念布克奖25周年额外增设。2008年他又凭借《午夜之子》获得“最佳布克奖”,这个特别奖项旨在庆...
評分讀完一本傑作就像是一場友誼的終結。
评分當一個人和一個國傢成為雙生子 於是有瞭這個宏大而帶著魔幻感的故事。但是單詞真是好難啊 我就這麼囫圇吐棗瞭。。。
评分,
评分很特彆的小說。在繼承瞭英國文學傳統(狄更斯,康拉德最為明顯)的同時,創造性的書寫瞭印度二十世紀的曆史(個人記憶與集體曆史的並置)。可惜的是,作者沒有擺脫essentialism的邏輯,在英美主流文壇上屢獲好評,“政治正確”的因素不可否認。難怪讀完總感覺有那麼一點兒彆扭。BTW,說起魔幻現實主義的作品,迄今為止我還是認為《百年孤獨》為最佳。
评分4.5星,文筆好得沒法說,想象力豐富,可讀性極強,但後麵讓人感覺略失望有爛尾嫌疑
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