TY - BOOK AU - Rushdie, Salman TI - Languages of truth: essays 2003-2020 SN - 9780670092802 U1 - 824.92 PY - 2021/// CY - Gurugram PB - Penguin Random House India KW - English essays KW - Creative nonfiction - English KW - English essays - 21st century N1 - This essay and speeches originally appeared in different forms I Am Not Yet Dead from the musical Monty Python's Spamalot written by Eric Idle, music by John Du Prez in 2004 ; Table of Contents Part One Wonder Tales Proteus Heraclitus Another Writer's Beginnings Part Two Philip Roth Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five Samuel Beckett's Novels Cervantes and Shakespeare Gabo and I Harold Pinter Introduction to the Paris Review Interviews, Vol. IV Autobiography and the Novel Adaptation Notes on Sloth: From Saligia to Oblomov Hans Christian Andersen King of the World by David Remnick Very Well Then, I Contradict Myself Part Three Truth Courage Texts for pen 1 The Pen and the Sword 2 The Birth of Pen World Voices 3 The Arthur Miller Lecture, 2012 4 Pen World Voices Opening Night 2014 5 Pen World Voices Opening Night 2017 Christopher Hitchens The Liberty Instinct Osama Bin Laden Ai Weiwei and Others The Half-Woman God Nova Southeastern University Commencement Address 2006 Emory University Commencement Address 2015 Part Four The Composite Artist: the Emperor Akbar and the Making of the Hamzanama Amrita Sher-Gil: Letters Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003) Being Francesco Clemente: Self-Portraits at the Gagosian Gallery, London, 2005 Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar at the Whitney Museum, New York, 2007 Kara Walker at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009 Sebastião Salgado The Unbeliever's Christmas Carrie Fisher Pandemic: A Personal Engagement with the Coronavirus The Proust Questionnaire: Vanity Fair N2 - Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word and solidify his place as one of the most original thinkers of our time. Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, Languages of Truth chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual engagement with a period of momentous cultural shifts. Immersing the reader in a wide variety of subjects, he delves into the nature of storytelling as a human need, and what emerges is, in myriad ways, a love letter to literature itself. Rushdie explores what the work of authors from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett, Eudora Welty, and Toni Morrison mean to him, whether on the page or in person. He delves deep into the nature of “truth,” revels in the vibrant malleability of language and the creative lines that can join art and life, and looks anew at migration, multiculturalism, and censorship. Enlivened on every page by Rushdie’s signature wit and dazzling voice, Languages of Truth offers the author’s most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us on an exhilarating tour of his own exuberant and fearless imagination. https://penguin.co.in/book/languages-of-truth ER -