There isn’t just one Salman Rushdie but many, lamented the man himself, speaking before a packed audience […] He spoke of his struggle to find a balance between being “a writer” and doing the writing; his perennial anxiety at not feeling represented by his public persona. […]
Rushdie is forever bumping into these shadow selves. He has been on tour for the past seven weeks promoting his new novel, Shalimar the Clown, and invariably, wherever in the world he went someone would comment; “Oh, we didn’t know you’d be funny”.
“Do I have to reintroduce myself to every member of the human race?” asks Rushdie.[…]
Anita Sethi en Culture Vulture
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