, Salman Rushdie’s seventh novel, written in the space of a few months, was published in 2001, a few days before 9/11. Because of its title and of the photograph on the front cover (a dramatically sunlit black cloud hovering just above the Empire State Building), some commentators called the novel a prescient “prophecy” (Rushdie 2012, 624), but this was misleading: even if a very minor character, a “foolish” taxi driver, provides comic relief with his imaginative Urdu insults (
Fury65, 175), nothing else in the book remotely suggests Islamist wrath. But the novel does reflect and transmute important details of the author’s life: in 2000, Rushdie was emerging out of ten years of reclusion, and he decided to leave for the USA in order to live with beautiful Padma Lakshmi, a…
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Citation: Pesso-Miquel, Catherine. "Fury". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 November 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=12253, accessed 25 April 2024.]
