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Quichotte rushdie5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Rushdie made his name on the breathtaking originality of his 1981 novel, Midnight’s Children, the story of a boy “handcuffed to history,” born at the exact second of Indian independence. The novels are imaginative as ever, but they are also increasingly wobbly, bloated and mannered. He is the author of nearly 20 books-six published in the past 11 years alone, but of diminishing quality. “You want to be able to walk into a bookstore and say, ‘From here to here, it’s me.’”Ī shelf of books. “What you hope to do is leave behind a shelf of books,” Salman Rushdie once said, quoting Martin Amis. ![]() How do writers privately define success? Is it a matter of sales, prizes, worshipful reviews? Yes, but only that? Are there more idiosyncratic metrics-a conviction in the value of the work or in the risks taken or, perhaps, the knowledge of the cost of its creation? ![]()
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