Salman Rushdie presents “Two years, eight months twenty-eight days,” the IDF – proceso.com.mx

Guadalajara, Jal. (Approved) .- The British writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses , presented tonight his latest novel entitled Two years, eight months and twenty-eight days , in the version in Spanish and published by Editorial Planeta.

The event took place in room “Juan Rulfo” of the facilities of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) place where the essayist was accompanied by Mexican writer Pedro Angel Palou, another intellectual who has written more than 40 books, and who spoke with Rushdie for about an hour, in a talk in which some details of addressed Two years, eight months and twenty-eight days .

The writer referred to the literary trend of “magical realism” and its origin in Latin America, he spoke of some of its exponents, as in the case of Colombian and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez.

He also said that for an author the side of fantasy can not exist without appearing anchored the reality we face.

Considered a serious contender for the Nobel for literature, the British writer is seen as “one of the most important novelists of our time and an indispensable voice in the fight for freedom of expression and against fanaticism “, according to the reference provided by its publisher.

The first time I visited Guadalajara Rushdie was in 1995, and this time the writer came to town in the middle of an impressive safety device, to the death threats he had against him, and after the publication of Satanic Verses .

At that time it had a price on his head and that Rushdie reason was guarded by a rigorous safety device. In the world he learned that a fundamentalist group offered 2,000,000 $ 700,000 for those who murdered the writer.

It was argued that Rushdie had mocked Muhammad, in a passage of his work, which describes a group of prostitutes who dream of becoming women of that deity.

Even years after the reward rose to 3 million 300 thousand dollars, but after a few years the threat was gone.

For the second time that Rushdie comes to Guadalajara, extreme measures to care for his integrity no longer observed.

According Planet, despite criticism and controversy surrounding his work, Salman Rushdie has written two best-selling novels in the world.

“ Two years, eight months and twenty-eight days are exactly the Arabian Nights, and that’s the model that with a wry look, Rushdie employs for this book: a novel full of stories strung, delusional fantasy, imaginative outrage about human nature. Rushdie wants to be the Scheherazade of our century and the efforts he has no great “, as described Luisgé Martin in his criticism of the new novel by British writer, in a review that appeared on 26 October in the Spanish newspaper El País and reproduced on the Web site of the newspaper.