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The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, a vividly imagined magical realist novel that interweaves the story of the protagonists Saladin and Gibreel, whose lives are transformed after they survive the hijacking of a plane, with an imaginary account of the early days of Islam. Through this story, Rushdie explores the themes of Indian identity, migration, belief and alienation. Although the novel was critically acclaimed in the West, its depiction of Islam and of the Prophet Muhammed angered many Muslims, who interpreted it as blasphemous, and resulted in the issuing of a fatwa for Rushdie’s assassination.
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SALMAN RUSHDIE
BRITISH INDIAN WRITER
Born in Bombay, British India in 1947.Notable works:Midnight’s Children (1981), novelJoseph Anton: A Memoir (2012), autobiographyTwo Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights (2015), novelBorn in Bombay (now Mumbai), India in 1947, Salman Rushdie was educated at Rugby School in Warwickshire, England, before studying history at King’s College Cambridge. His first novel was published in 1975, but it was not until his second, Midnight’s Children, that he began to receive literary attention. Influenced by James Joyce (Irish writer, 1882-1941), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombian writer, 1927-2014) and J. G. Ballard (English writer, 1930-2009), his work often contains elements of magic realism, as well as a frame narrative to tell parallel stories. His novels are noted for being highly satirical and have been labelled as “comic epics”.
The Satanic Verses is unquestionably Rushdie’s most famous work, as the book sparked controversy a few months after its initial publication, in 1989. Its references to Islam were seen by some as blasphemous, and in February of that year a fatwa was issued against Rushdie by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989), the then Supreme Leader of Iran. It called for the death of Rushdie and his publishers, and a bounty was placed on him. Despite this, in 2007 the UK knighted him for services to literature.
THE SATANIC VERSES
A FANTASTICAL JOURNEY BETWEEN THE MODERN DAY AND REALMS OF OLD
Genre: magical realist novelReference edition: Rushdie, S. (1988) The Satanic Verses. London: Penguin Random House.1stedition: 1988Themes: heaven, hell, alienation, migration, identity, metamorphosis, belief, magic realism, rebirthThe Satanic Verses uses a frame narrative to combine several stories filled with magic realism (a genre of literature combining magical or fantastical elements with a realistic narrative), connecting them through time and space. Partially inspired by the life of the Prophet Muhammed, it follows the lives of two men after they fall out of a hijacked aeroplane only to take on the characteristics of the angel Gabriel and the devil. Although the reception it received from critics was generally quite favourable, the book sparked outrage among the Muslim community, leading to book burnings and protests, and a ban on the novel in over ten countries around the world. Sales of The Satanic Verses massively increased following the fatwa issued against Rushdie, even though several people died in protests regarding the book, while his publishers and translators were individually targeted.
