Satansverserna

Novel, Magic realism by Salman Rushdie

Blurb

Satansverserna är en roman av den indisk-brittiske författaren Salman Rushdie.
Romanen, som publicerades i oktober 1988, fick storpolitiska följder. Irans andlige och högste ledare ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini utfärdade den 14 februari 1989 en dödsdom i en fatwa mot Rushdie, vilket tvingade författaren att leva under jord i flera år.

First Published

1988

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Aleksandra.marinkovic

It is very hard to follow if you are not familiar with Hindu culture and if the translator was to lazy to look stuff up (like in Serbian) it is even worse. e.g. The translator would need to know who a gopi was in order to know that gopis was plural; if you were was to understand the character who "hung her hat shameless on a Chola Natraj", and other characters' perception of her, you would need to know Chola Natraj was a depiction of Vishnu made during Chola dynasty... I had to stop reading every time and look these things up (and I have nonstop internet, in 1988 people did not) - it feels like research for a college paper. There would be 5 references, one after another, in as many sentences.

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