{"id":1412,"date":"2012-09-19T03:45:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T08:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2012-09-18T10:08:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:08:52","slug":"joseph-anton-by-salman-rushdie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/joseph-anton-by-salman-rushdie\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Joseph<\/a>Yesterday NPR interviewed Salman Rushdie<\/a> about his new memoir, Joseph Anton<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 In the book Rushdie talks about the experience of living in hiding\u00a0 after a fatwa was issued calling for the death of the author and anyone associated with the book’s publication.<\/p>\n

Where does the title come from?\u00a0 In the interview Rushdie states:<\/p>\n

“The police asked me to come up with a pseudonym, partly because I needed to rent properties and so on, and obviously couldn’t do it in my own name,” he says. “And I was asked to make it not an Indian name. And so, deprived of one nationality, I retreated into literature \u2014 which is, you could say, my other country \u2014 and chose this name from the first names of Conrad and Chekhov: Joseph Conrad, Anton Chekhov equals Joseph Anton.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The interview is fascinating.\u00a0 Rushdie draws parallels between his situation and Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Birds.\u00a0 <\/em>Not only that, he suggests\u00a0 that his experience might have been a sort of foretelling of the 9\/11 attacks.
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NPR Interviews Salman Rushdie<\/a><\/p>\n

Joseph Anton: A Memoir<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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