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标题：Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar The Clown: Tragic Tale of a Smashed World
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作者：Saurabh Kumar Singh
期刊名称：Lapis Lazuli : an International Literary Journal
电子版ISSN：2249-4529
出版年度：2012
卷号：2
期号：1
出版社：Pinter Society of India
摘要：Salman Rushdie is, perhaps, the most controversial and political novelist of our troubled times. The world of his fictions and non-fictions accurately portrays the complex and confusing state of postcolonial world. Almost all of his major writings bear the testimony of his understanding and interpretation of history and the world, and their lasting influence on the life of common humanity. Shalimar The Clown (2005) is his most engaging book since Midnight's Children(1981). For so long a devout celebrant of postcolonial hybridity and diversity, of cultural fusion and merging, Rushdie is here grappling imaginatively with the shock of 11 September 2001 and the wars that have followed. He renders this very complex phenomenon in the following words