Rushdie on Eco and Pynchon

[Basileios Drolias]

On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Bruce Appelbaum wrote:

>      It's an interesting thing about Rushdie that after Midnight's Children 
>      and Shame (which I read while living in Pakistan while Zia was still 
>      President -- the book was banned in that country), his books really 
>      aren't readable or even very good.  Satanic Verses in itself was 
>      pretty poor -- I think it got its "15 minutes" more because of the 
>      Iranian fatwa than anything else.  The Moor's Last Sigh is guilty of 
>      all the same things for which he castigates Eco.

i disagree very strongly with that! ok, maybe the satanic verses is not a 
great book, and maybe shame is not excelent either. But Midnights children 
and the moors last sigh (along with his short stories) prove that the man 
is a brilliant story teller! (unlike Eco)...

>      His critical writings tend to have a certain superior tone, which he 
>      really has no right to use.


Rushdie tends to be very arrogant usualy ( i remember two years ago when 
Jack Kellmann won the booker prize he met Rushdie in teh urinals of a 
hotel, and Kellmann told him how sorrty he was about rushdies 
"state". Rushdie just replied that he is not sorry for kellmanns 
mental state, zipped up his trousers and left)

I can forgive his arrogance when i read him.

basil