Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
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Extraordinary memoir coming to terms with - or rather overcoming - the vicious attack. A must-read, not only for readers of his work.
Ein wichtiges und intensives Buch, darüber, wie es nach einem so einschneidenden Schicksalsschlag weiter gehen kann. Philosophisch, kämpferisch, inspirierend.
“I don’t care about you,” says Rushdie in one chapter in an imagined conversation with his attacker, an imagined court hearing. And yet, here we are, reading a book about the attack and, consequently, the attacker. Seems like Rushdie cares quite a bit. And makes quite a bit of money with the book. Later in the “narrative”, when he revisits the amphitheater in which he was attacked, he expresses the wish to be the person he was before the attack, again. So much for his indifference. How could anyone be indifferent toward the person who almost killed them ? Just suggesting that he feels this borders on hubris and delusion of grandeur. This book (here I agree with a couple of other reviewers) should not have been published — the world did not need it, we did not need to read this. But since it is here: it is simply not good. Rushdie rambles on about everything and nothing, trying to say profound things all the time but ending up giving readers old tropes and platitudes. There are some awful cases of wordplay that made me cringe while reading. Let me be clear: nobody should go through what Rushdie had to go through and I wish him nothing but goodness and health. But it is equally true that no one should write and publish a book like this one.
2,5
This book was absolutely amazing, I myself am a big fan of knifes, the deep refrences with the knife and disputes amazed me they made me think hard about this easy but deadly prop, and I liked it, I liked to think about a knife as more as just an Objekt. What this author had to go trough after the attack I could've not done, he is a very strong man guided by love which is lovely. He was surrounded by the right people. This book amazed me in many ways, and I absolutely loved it <3
Description
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Extraordinary memoir coming to terms with - or rather overcoming - the vicious attack. A must-read, not only for readers of his work.
Ein wichtiges und intensives Buch, darüber, wie es nach einem so einschneidenden Schicksalsschlag weiter gehen kann. Philosophisch, kämpferisch, inspirierend.
“I don’t care about you,” says Rushdie in one chapter in an imagined conversation with his attacker, an imagined court hearing. And yet, here we are, reading a book about the attack and, consequently, the attacker. Seems like Rushdie cares quite a bit. And makes quite a bit of money with the book. Later in the “narrative”, when he revisits the amphitheater in which he was attacked, he expresses the wish to be the person he was before the attack, again. So much for his indifference. How could anyone be indifferent toward the person who almost killed them ? Just suggesting that he feels this borders on hubris and delusion of grandeur. This book (here I agree with a couple of other reviewers) should not have been published — the world did not need it, we did not need to read this. But since it is here: it is simply not good. Rushdie rambles on about everything and nothing, trying to say profound things all the time but ending up giving readers old tropes and platitudes. There are some awful cases of wordplay that made me cringe while reading. Let me be clear: nobody should go through what Rushdie had to go through and I wish him nothing but goodness and health. But it is equally true that no one should write and publish a book like this one.
2,5