LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 10 : 12 December 2010
ISSN 1930-2940

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Formative Influences on Sir Salman Rushdie

Prabha Parmar, Ph.D.


Salman Rushdie, A Renowned Novelist

Sir Salman Rushdie has earned widespread reputation both in India and abroad as a novelist, essayist and discussant. He has a significant place in world literature. He has achieved a prestigious position in the Indo-English literature through his brilliant works.

Salman Rushdie, a Bombay born and London based novelist, was born in a Muslim family on 19 June 1947 in Bombay. He has written ten novels, two collections of short stories, many literature reviews and essays and two documentary films. He is a recipient of many awards along with 'Booker of Bookers'. Salman Rushdie is called "The demon-king of Indian English literature."1 Rushdie is part of the bumper crop of Indian Writing in English: "One could hardly disagree with Rushdie that 'on the map of world literature', too, India has been undersized for too long, but a bumper crop of writing in English has emerged from the non-imperial postcolonial cultures, especially from India."2

Novels of Rushdie

Rushdie's novels deal with many themes like history, politics, love, shame, religion, exile and rootlessness. "Rushdie's work is so particular, in terms of subject matter, themes, setting, story-telling devices and formal literary method that no one but he can speak in his tongue." 3

Rushdie has been influenced by some writers from English literature. This is not unusual, since influence on one writer by other is not a new thing in the world of English literature. Father of English and English poem Chaucer was also influenced by Boccaccio. The great dramatist Shakespeare took several of his ideas from others. "But much of the writing is evidently not his and as it seems probable that the conception and construction of the whole tragedy should also be attributed to some writer."4

So, in the same way, Salman Rushdie is much influenced by some other writers along with Shakespeare. He was influenced by G.V. Desani, Gunter Grass and Shakespeare, most of all. His themes are also influenced by these writers. "Rushdie combines realism and fantasy, and, like South American novelists Gabrial Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges, he roundly satirizes the politics and society of the country in which each novel is set."5 About the involvement of some famous books and writers in Rushdie's fiction Damian Grant writes, "These influences include, it must be said, the Bible and the Koran, the Indian epics, Sufi texts, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Black,Dickens, Bulgokov, Beckett, and, of cours,e Joyce himself."6

Salman Rushdie's Background

Salman Rushdie is an Indian and a Muslim also, so he knows a lot of things about India and Pakistan. He uses Muslim religion and both these countries in his novels. Rushdie himself writes in his third novel Shame - "I, too, know something of this immigrant business. I am an emigrant from one country (India) and a newcomer in two (England, where I lived and Pakistan, to which my family moved against my will)."7 These lines show his love for India and in an interview he accepts himself, "If you have to choose a nationality as a writer, I'd call myself an Indian writer."8

His only novel Fury can be said an American novel, but it is also influenced by the Indian city Mumbai (Bombay), because the hero of this novel is born in Bombay. But, due to his direct writing about Islam, he had to face many problems and comments, such as, "I said, Hai Ram, our Salman has lost touch with his native land and with the religion of his fathers."9


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Prabha Parmar, M.A., Ph.D.
Department of Applied Science & Humanities
Punjab Institute of Engineering & Applied Research
Lalru Mandi, Mohali 140501
Punjab, India
prabhaparmar12@gmail.com

 
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