The Satanic Verses

Novel, Magic realism by Salman Rushdie

Blurb

The Satanic Verses ialah novel keempat Salman Rushdie yang mula sekali diterbitkan pada tahun 1988 dan menerima sedikit ilham dari kehidupan Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. Seperti karya-karyanya sebelum ini, Rushdie banyak bergantung pada peristiwa dan tokoh semasa sebagai asas kepada watak-watak ceritanya. Perwatakan watak utama The Satanic Verses berdasarkan bintang filem India Amitabh Bachchan. Judul buku ini menyentuh beberapa rangkap al-Qur'an meragukan yang menjadi doa kepada tiga dewi pujaan banu Quraisy iaitu Allāt, Al-‘Uzzá, dan Manāt, dan kini dikenali sebagai "rangkap syaitan". Babak-babak kisah yang menceritakan "rangkap syaitan" ini berdasarkan pengalaman dua orang sejarawan bernama Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Omar Ibn Waqid al-Aslami dan Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari.
Buku ini disambut baik oleh pengulas buku di United Kingdom, serta tercalon sebagai Finalis Hadiah Booker 1988, tetapi kalah kepada Oscar and Lucinda oleh Peter Carey, tetapi memenangi Anugerah Whitbread bagi novel terbaik pada tahun itu.
Apapun, novel ini menimbulkan kontroversi hebat di kalangan umat Islam kerana ramai mendakwa buku ini banyak berisi kufur kandungannya.

First Published

1988

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aleksandra.marinkovic

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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