{"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":"<p><a style=\"margin: 0 0px 10px 0px;\" title=\"Joseph Anton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0812992784\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0812992784&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=litquotes-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1413 alignleft\" title=\"Joseph Anton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/JosephAnton.jpg\" alt=\"Joseph Anton\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/JosephAnton.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/JosephAnton-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/JosephAnton-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday <a title=\"NPR Interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/09\/18\/161172489\/becoming-anton-or-how-rushdie-survived-a-fatwa\" target=\"_blank\">NPR interviewed Salman Rushdie<\/a> about his new memoir, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0812992784\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0812992784&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=litquotes-20\" target=\"_blank\">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&#8217;s publication.<\/p>\n<p>Where does the title come from?\u00a0 In the interview Rushdie states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The police asked me to come up with a pseudonym, partly because I needed to rent properties and so on, and obviously couldn&#8217;t do it in my own name,&#8221; he says. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The interview is fascinating.\u00a0 Rushdie draws parallels between his situation and Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s film <em>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.<br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NPR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/09\/18\/161172489\/becoming-anton-or-how-rushdie-survived-a-fatwa\" target=\"_blank\">NPR Interviews Salman Rushdie<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0812992784\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0812992784&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=litquotes-20\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Anton: A Memoir<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday NPR interviewed Salman Rushdie about his new memoir, Joseph Anton.\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 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[310,305,309],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-litnews","tag-anton-chekhov","tag-joseph-conrad","tag-salman-rushdie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}