Salman Rushdie Case

Salman Rushdie

The well known Indian-Anglo novelist, Salman Rushdie, is an award winning writer who often uses magical realism and satire for his style of writing. Many readers admired Rushdie's writings while others were highly offended. He had even received death threats from the ruler of Iran (Liukkonen).

In the Novel Haroun an the Sea of Stories Rushdie displays a great amount of magical realism all through out the pages. Magical Realism is basically when magical elements combine with the reality of the world (Wikipedia). In this novel Rushdie uses characters such as dark illains, genies, talking fish, robots, and a Princess who is in danger of her life and needs to be rescued. Rushdie creates a fantasy land for the purpose of giving an idea that all narrative is an invention. For example,"Haroun went with his father whenever he could, because the man was a magician...From the great Story Sea, I drink the warm Story Waters and then I feel full of steam"(Pg 16). Haroun's father, Rashid Khalifa, reveals magical elements that encounter with the real world. Another example of magical realism is, "It comes out of an invisible Tap installed by one of the Water Genies"(Pg 17). The super natural events continue to occur in the novel.

Salman Rushdie uses satire in his works of literature. In the novel Midnights

Children a great deal of satire is shown. At times it can be hard to tell if the text is comic

or serious. For example, "is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a

Woman" (Pg 67). It is quite difficult to not use satire in a novel.

Rushdie is also known as a postmodernist. A postmodernist has more than one

definition, it basically lacks religious truth. In the novel Satanic Verses Rushdie reveals

his postmodernism beliefs. Critic Timothy Breannan had called the work "the most ambitious novel yet published to deal with the immigrant experience in Britain"(Wikipedia). Satanic Verses had caused a great amount of commotion through out Islam. They were completely against the novel, which was the cause of sending death threats to Rushdie.

Salman Rushdie's works had satisfied