#salmanrushdie

[sabinekorth]

Telling myself stories. and never ending gratitude for the exciting adventures in my studio. This is a part of my recent project on Salman Rushdie.From his book “Haroun and the sea of stories”. For years I worked on and off with his novels. I was lucky to meet Rushdie in person and got a signed book in 2017 at a reading in Cologne, Germany. Then I sent some samples of my collages with his words to his office and got a friendly reply that he appreciated my artistic work and I was free to use his books. Now I'm coming back to this generous offer. 😉📚 #literature #salmanrushdie #harounandtheseaofstories #salmanrushdiequotes #salmanrushdiebooks #collage #analoguecollage #cutandpaste #cutandpastecollage (presso Piombino, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpmrtIgKput/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[pyxisbr-blog-blog]

A Arte de ser um Iconoclasta, da Série "Entre sem bater".

Um idólatra e um iconoclasta nunca se bicavam.

Atualmente, as redes sociais misturam tudo.

#Iconoclasta #Entresembater #SalmanRushdie #Idolatra #Iconoclastia #Cetico #Critica #IdolosdeBarro #Mito

[net-photos]

"Messer" von Salman Rushdie handelt von der Suche eines jungen Mannes nach seinem Vater in einer von Korruption und Gewalt geprägten Gesellschaft. Den ganzen Artikel gibt es hier: https://nordischepost.de/unterhaltung/design/die-kunst-des-messerdesigns-von-salman-rushdie/?feed_id=74042&_unique_id=6664340c4431b

[biographiness]

On this day on February 24 in history the Gregorian calendar, the Marbury v. Madison ruling, and the Salman Rushdie fatwa shaped the world we live in today.🌍⚖️📝

Follow for more👉 @biographiness

[cristianemagalhaes]

Haroun e o Mar de Histórias – Salman Rushdie

Uma delícia de livro! Uma fábula encantadora que fala de um contador de histórias que, depois de abandonado pela esposa, perde completamente a capacidade de contar histórias! Ele e seu filho vão atrás da fonte das histórias e entram numa cruzada contra um terrível inimigo – Kattam-Shud – “o arqui-inimigo de todas as Histórias, até mesmo da própria Língua. É o Príncipe do Silêncio, o Inimigo da Fala.” Eles encontram personagens incríveis, como o motorista do ônibus, que corre loucamente para que cheguem a tempo de ver o pôr-do-sol no vale de K, assim como Haroun havia pedido para deixar seu pai mais feliz, o Gavião Mas Mas que  leva Haroun com Iff um gênio da água para Kahani, uma lua que não roda, em que um lado sempre tem sol e o outro só escuridão.. E por lá tem o mar de histórias...

“Haroun costumava pensar que seu pai era um Malabarista, pois cada história era, na verdade, uma porção de histórias diferentes entremeadas uma na outra e Rashid as mantinha todas sob controle, numa espécie de rodamoinho estonteante, e nunca se atrapalhava.”

“.. o silêncio também tinha sua graça e beleza (assim como a fala pode ser feia e deselegante), e que a Ação podia ser tão nobre como as Palavras. E que as criaturas da noite podiam ser tão belas como os filhos da luz.”

[magicalandreal]

"one's goal is the shedding of mental obstacles that prevent one from being flooded with the glorious universal, Love as Being. It is a goal, therefore, that requires of us the absolute and irreversible abandonment of reason, for love is without reason"

Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

[jimfostercoc]

In "Luka and the Fire of Life," author Salman Rushdie writes a children's book that follows a twelve-year-old named Luka who embarks on a quest to find a way to wake his father from a deep sleep, encountering creatures and obstacles along the journey. This discussion with the author took place on a 2010 episode of "Conversations On The Coast with Jim Foster" originating in San Francisco, California. Photo: salmanrushdie.com

[jamiesonwolf]

Arrived home to find this waiting for me. I can't wait to start reading! #salmanrushdie #victorycity #newbook https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp6W5yHuH63/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[biglisbonnews]

Salman Rushdie is promoting his new novel with a little help from fellow authors Salman Rushdie’s new book is ready for release.Read more... https://qz.com/salman-rushdie-book-victory-city-promotion-release-date-1850077156

[polifema32]

#harúnyelmardelashistorias de #salmanrushdie 🐈‍⬛🍄🕷️ Consíguelo aquí ⬇️ 🪴🪴🪴🪴🌾🌾🌾🌾🌱🌱🌱🌱🍃🍃🍃🍃 Envíos y entregas 📦🚚📪📤 Te invitamos a visitar nuestra tienda en línea https://linktr.ee/Loslibrosdepolifema Entregas personales todos los sábados en Parque San Fernando ( entre revolución e hidalgo, línea 2 del STCM) #libros #bookstagram #books #librosrecomendados #literatura #leer #frases #lectura #book #libro #booklover #lectores #escritos #poesia #instabook #amoleer #bookstagrammer (en Mexico City, Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn4YWbduYGA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[intellectures]

Schillernd und umstritten

Susan Sontag gilt bis heute als intellektuelle Ikone ihrer Zeit. In diesen Tagen wäre sie 90 Jahre alt geworden. Seit ihrem Tod haben zahlreiche Bücher von und über Sontag den Blick auf Leben und Werk der Essayistin geweitet. Read the full article

[soft-transparent-furry-peanut-oi]

https://youtube.com/shorts/5jCwrQe0238?si=AoRUwBL1SbUYYylo

Salman Rushdie

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Ewan Somerville

Published: Feb 19, 2023

Sir Salman Rushdie has attacked the rewriting of Roald Dahl books as "absurd censorship" at the hands of “bowdlerising sensitivity police”.

In new editions of Roald Dahl’s beloved stories, Augustus Gloop is no longer fat, Mrs Twit is no longer fearfully ugly, and the Oompa-Loompas have gone gender-neutral.

The publisher, Puffin, has made hundreds of changes to the original text, removing many of Dahl’s classic, timeless and colourful descriptions and making his characters less grotesque.

Sensitivity readers were brought in to review Dahl’s language so the books “can continue to be enjoyed by all today”, Puffin said.

Sir Salman, who as author of The Satanic Verses has been a pioneer of free enquiry and lived under constant threats to his life, became the most high-profile person in the literary world to condemn the decision on Sunday.

He wrote on Twitter: "Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed."

He wrote on Twitter:

Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed. https://t.co/sdjMfBr7WW— Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) February 18, 2023

Sir Salman later tweeted in response to a critic: "He was a self confessed antisemite, with pronounced racist leanings, and he joined in the attack on me back in 1989… but thanks for telling me off for defending his work from the bowdlerizing Sensitivity Police."

Sir Salman, was stabbed more than a dozen times on stage last August at a literary festival at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state, leaving him blind in one eye. After writing The Satanic Verses, Iran issued a fatwa death sentence for "blasphemy" and his book was banned in 45 Islamic countries.

Other literary figures also rounded on the changes.

Comedian David Baddiel posted a screenshot of one of the changes to a passage in The Twits that removes the words "double chin", adding: "The problem with the Dahl bowdlerisation is it has no logical consistency.

"Here, double chin has been cut, presumably to avoid fat shaming. But what about wonky nose or crooked teeth shaming? Once you start on this path you can end up with blank pages."

Meanwhile, Suzanne Nossel, the CEO of literature and human rights organisation PEN America, said she was "alarmed" at the changes, which "could represent a dangerous new weapon".

“The problem with taking license to re-edit classic works is that there is no limiting principle," she tweeted.

“You start out wanting to replace a word here and a word there, and end up inserting entirely new ideas (as has been done to Dahl’s work).

"Literature is meant to be surprising and provocative. That's part of its potency. By setting out to remove any reference that might cause offense you dilute the power of storytelling."

Katharine Birbalsingh, a headteacher and Britain's former social mobility commissioner, added of the changes: "How is this even legal?"

The Telegraph revealed last week how hundreds of changes have been made to updated prints of Dahl's stories, bringing them into line with contemporary sensitivities, with words and phrases on weight, mental health, violence, gender and race expunged.

The word “fat” has been removed from every book - Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory may still look like a ball of dough, but can now only be described as “enormous”.

In the same story, the Oompa-Loompas are no longer “tiny”, “titchy” or “no higher than my knee” but merely small. And where once they were “small men”, they are now “small people”.

The words “black” and “white” have been removed: characters no longer turn “white with fear” and the Big Friendly Giant in The BFG cannot wear a black cloak.

In previous editions of James and the Giant Peach, the Centipede sings: “Aunt Sponge was terrifically fat/And tremendously flabby at that,” and, “Aunt Spiker was thin as a wire/And dry as a bone, only drier.”

Both verses have been removed, and in their place are the underwhelming rhymes: “Aunt Sponge was a nasty old brute/And deserved to be squashed by the fruit,” and, “Aunt Spiker was much of the same/And deserves half of the blame.”

In a section of The Witches, another reference to a "double chin" has been removed.

Prof Frank Furedi, an expert in the sociology of fear at the University of Kent, told The Telegraph: "What we have here is a knee-jerk cleansing of the literature of the past and they are turning works of literature into recipe books for their own wokeish values.

"This is only the beginning because the role of sensitivity readers is expanding all the time.

"Whereas they were initially hired to read new books submitted to them, now they're going back through the literature of the past almost as grievance archaeologists, trying to unearth words that might offend them."

Dahl died in 1990 and his family subsequently apologised for anti-Semitic remarks during his lifetime, but he is still regarded as one of the world's best storytellers.

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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."

-- George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty- Four"

"Grievance archaeology" is an oustanding turn of phrase. They're literally digging back through the past to find something to concoct offense about.

--

By: AP News

Published: Feb 24, 2023

LONDON (AP) — Publisher Penguin Random House announced Friday it will publish “classic” unexpurgated versions of Roald Dahl’s children’s novels after it received criticism for cuts and rewrites that were intended to make the books suitable for modern readers.

Along with the new editions, the company said 17 of Dahl’s books would be published in their original form later this year as “The Roald Dahl Classic Collection” so “readers will be free to choose which version of Dahl’s stories they prefer.”

The move comes after criticism of scores of changes made to “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and other much-loved classics for recent editions published under the company’s Puffin children’s label, in which passages relating to weight, mental health, gender and race were altered.

Augustus Gloop, Charlie’s gluttonous antagonist in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” — originally published in 1964 — became “enormous” rather than “enormously fat.” In “Witches,” an “old hag” became an “old crow,” and a supernatural female posing as an ordinary woman may be a “top scientist or running a business” instead of a “cashier in a supermarket or typing letters for a businessman.”

In “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” the word “black” was removed from a description of the “murderous, brutal-looking” tractors.

The Roald Dahl Story Company, which controls the rights to the books, said it had worked with Puffin to review and revise the texts because it wanted to ensure that “Dahl’s wonderful stories and characters continue to be enjoyed by all children today.”

While tweaking old books for modern sensibilities is not a new phenomenon in publishing, the scale of the edits drew strong criticism from free-speech groups such as writers’ organization PEN America, and from authors including Salman Rushdie.

Rushdie, who lived under threat of death from Iran’s Islamic regime for years because of the alleged blasphemy of his novel “The Satanic Verses,” called the revisions “absurd censorship.”

Rushdie, who was attacked and seriously injured last year at an event in New York state, tweeted news of Penguin’s change of heart on Friday with the words “Penguin Books back down after Roald Dahl backlash!”

PEN America chief executive Suzanne Nossel wrote on Twitter: “I applaud Penguin for hearing out critics, taking the time to rethink this, and coming to the right place.”

Camilla, Britain’s queen consort, appeared to offer her view at a literary reception on Thursday. She urged writers to “remain true to your calling, unimpeded by those who may wish to curb the freedom of your expression or impose limits on your imagination.”

Dahl’s books, with their mischievous children, strange beasts and often beastly adults, have sold more than 300 million copies and continue to be read by children around the world. Their multiple stage and screen adaptations include “Matilda the Musical” and two “Willy Wonka” films based on “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” with a third in the works.

But Dahl, who died in 1990, is also a controversial figure because of antisemitic comments made throughout his life. His family apologized in 2020.

In 2021, Dahl’s estate sold the rights to the books to Netflix, which plans to produce a new generation of films based on the stories.

Francesca Dow, managing director of Penguin Random House Children’s, said the publisher had “listened to the debate over the past week which has reaffirmed the extraordinary power of Roald Dahl’s books and the very real questions around how stories from another era can be kept relevant for each new generation.”

“Roald Dahl’s fantastic books are often the first stories young children will read independently, and taking care for the imaginations and fast-developing minds of young readers is both a privilege and a responsibility,” she said.

“We also recognize the importance of keeping Dahl’s classic texts in print,” Dow said. “By making both Puffin and Penguin versions available, we are offering readers the choice to decide how they experience Roald Dahl’s magical, marvelous stories.”

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There's a couple of lessons here.

Firstly, if you're a creator, stay true to your vision. While certainly there's such a thing as valid criticism and feedback, it is clear that there are people whose main objective and complaint is that you should be reproducing their vision, and are more than willing to pretend it's a moral failing on your behalf not to do so.

It's also true that humans are more likely to voice their complaint or opposition than to voice their approval or agreement. But the shrill moralizing, tut-tutting puritans while loud, are not the majority. Time and again we find that any significant pushback results in a backdown from the ruling class who have made the mistake of taking the counsel of the puritans.

[chuckdillon]

I’m pretty proud of this joke. _ _ _ _ _ _ #penandink #ink #sketchbook #sketch #cartoonist #cartoonistsofinstagram #illustration #illustrator #illustrationartists #illustrationart #illustrations #creative_illustration #art_spotlight #artistsoninstagram #cartoonart #intstaartwork #characterdesign #characterart #illustrationoftheday #drawingoftheday #creativeprocess #instadraw #characterdesign #characterart #observationalart #puzzle #seekandfind #searchandfind #wimmelbild #salmanrushdie https://www.instagram.com/p/Cno4aPJuf7f/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[imrananwar]

No All-Fried Hitched Cock Or Chicken, iCut Salmon RushToDie To AirFry - IMRAN™

I’m not a fan of slasher horror films other than a few notable exceptions, for example SCREAM and I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER. I’m even less a fan of cooking. But I’m an addict of bad puns and terrible wordplay.

When I sliced this large piece of salmon into two with a knife rarely used in 20 years, I thought the reflection selfie would be a fun homage to slasher films & Alfred Hitchcock — with a humorous title at the expense of the fishface sockeye garbage-writer Salman Rushdie and i-named products.

Happy, humorous, and safe thanksgiving everyone!

© 2024 IMRAN™

#IMRAN, #cooking, #salmon, #moviereferences, #SalmanRushdi, #AlfredHitchcock, #horrormovies, #wordplay, #humor, #Thanksgiving, #HappyThanksgiving, #NewYork, #LongIsland, #EastPatchogue,

[graywyvern]

( via / via / via via @joycecaroloates )

"We misremember the past as a Golden Age of Shared Understanding. In reality it was nothing like that; it was a time of information starvation."

pavements where the fallen traik & pollinate tomorrow's knits avoid me as i would a krait console me in the furtive stink

another tome to crowd the range & one more fathom dimly great as we beneath some blind god's anger lift paper as effectual targe

"We are watching a disaster unfold in real-time." (via @gretathunberg)

"I’m totally available to play the next Doctor Who. Somebody needs to call my agent." --@salmanrushdie

"Oraic-Tolic criticizes the conception that the palindrome's two parts are identical as utopian and questions whether the meaning has to be the same in left-right and right-left direction, from the West and from the East."