Fury, published in 2001, is the seventh novel by author Salman Rushdie. Rushdie depicts contemporary New York City as the epicenter of globalization and all of its tragic flaws.[1][2]
 First edition | |
| Author | Salman Rushdie |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction novel |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
Publication date | 2001 |
| Publication place | Great Britain |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 259 pp |
| ISBN | 0-224-06159-3 |
| OCLC | 47036146 |
| Preceded by | The Ground Beneath Her Feet |
| Followed by | Shalimar the Clown |
Plot summary
editMalik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated millionaire from Bombay, is looking for an escape from himself. At first he escapes from his academic life by immersing himself in the world of miniatures (after becoming enamored with the miniature houses on display at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), eventually creating a puppet called "Little Brain" and leaving the academy for television.
However, dissatisfaction with the rising popularity of "Little Brain" serves to ignite deeper demons within Solanka's life, resulting in the narrowly avoided murder of his wife and child. To further escape, Solanka travels to New York, hopeful he can lose himself and his demons in America, only to find that he is forced to confront himself.
Reception
editThe Daily Telegraph reported on reviews from several publications with a rating scale for the novel out of "Love It", "Pretty Good", "Ok", and "Rubbish": Guardian review under "Love It" and Independent, Observer, and TLS reviews under "Ok" and Daily Telegraph, Times, Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Times, Independent On Sunday, Spectator, and Literary Review reviews under "Rubbish".[3][4] The Guardian gave the novel an average rating of 5.3 out of 10 based on reviews from multiple British newspapers.[5]
Further reading
edit- Brouillette, Sarah. ‘Authorship as crisis in Salman Rushdie’s Fury’, Sage Publications, (2005)
- Eder, Richard. “The Beast in Me: Review of Fury by Salman Rushdie” New York Times, (2001). [1]
- Gonzalez, Madelena. "United States of Banana (2011), Elizabeth Costello (2003) and Fury (2001): Portrait of the Writer as the ‘Bad Subject’of Globalisation." Études britanniques contemporaines. Revue de la Société dʼétudes anglaises contemporaines 46 (2014). [2]
- Zucker, David J. "Fury Meets and Greets Sabbath's Theater: Salman Rushdie's Homage to Philip Roth." Philip Roth Studies 9, no. 2 (2013): 85-90.
- Zimring, Rishona. "The passionate cosmopolitan in Salman Rushdie's Fury."Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46, no. 1 (2010): 5-16.
References
edit- ^ Gonzalez, Madelena (2014). "United States of Banana (2011), Elizabeth Costello (2003) and Fury (2001): Portrait of the Writer as the 'Bad Subject' of Globalisation". Études Britanniques Contemporaines (46). doi:10.4000/ebc.1279.
- ^ Gonzalez, Madelena (July 2014). "United States of Banana (2011), Elizabeth Costello (2003) and Fury (2001): Portrait of the Writer as the 'Bad Subject' of Globalisation". Études britanniques contemporaines. 46 (46 2014). d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines: 1–16. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ^ "Books of the moment: What the papers say". The Daily Telegraph. 1 September 2001. p. 52. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ^ "Books of the moment: What the papers say". The Daily Telegraph. 8 September 2001. p. 52. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ^ "Review". The Guardian. 1 September 2001. p. 358. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
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