Book · 2012 · Biography & Autobiography
Joseph Anton
A Memoir
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Then I think you've sort of admitted to giving you've written a sort of autobiography before a memoir called Joseph Anton which you did in the third person.
Ezra Klein · The Ezra Klein Show · Apr 2024 Listen at 55:36 The best things said about it
I mean of course he wrote A Memoir about the decade that he lived under the fwa Joseph Anton so I I'm happy that he's writing this and I'm looking forward to it.
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Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie is a powerful, third-person memoir chronicling the harrowing decade the author spent living in hiding under a religious fatwa following the publication of The Satanic Verses. The memoir has frequently served as a crucial touchstone for literary critics and interviewers exploring Rushdie's life and career. On an episode of The Book Review, Gilbert Cruz mentioned the memoir to express his enthusiasm for Rushdie's subsequent writing projects, explicitly highlighting this previous book about the turbulent decade under the fatwa to contextualize the significance of the author's later work. Additionally, Ezra Klein brought up the autobiography during an interview on The Ezra Klein Show, prompting a discussion about the unique structural choice Rushdie made to write his life story in the third person. Through these mentions, commentators underscored the immense personal courage required of the author and the profound literary output that emerged from years of isolation, physical threat, and intense geopolitical controversy, making the book a vital document of modern artistic freedom and resilience against authoritarian censorship.
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Ezra Klein then I think you've sort of admitted to giving you've written a sort of autobiography before a memoir calle… 1
“then I think you've sort of admitted to giving you've written a sort of autobiography before a memoir called Joseph Anton which you did in the third person”
Gilbert Cruz I mean of course he wrote A Memoir about the decade that he lived under the fwa Joseph Anton so I I'm happy… 1
“I mean of course he wrote A Memoir about the decade that he lived under the fwa Joseph Anton so I I'm happy that he's writing this and I'm looking forward to it”
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“you've written a sort of autobiography before a memoir called Joseph Anton which you did in the third person”
“the name of that book is Joseph Anton”