3. His works:
Grimus
Midnight’s Children
(the most important work)
Shame
The Satanic Verses
(considered blasphemous by Muslims)
4.
Midnight’s Children
Novel
Protagonist: Saleem Sinai
Birth: midnight 15 August 1947
(day of Indian Indipendence)
Salim recounts his life
Life interwoven with history
5. 1001 children born that day
Considered to have powers:
Transmutation
Magic
Flight
Prophecy
6. His life = jars of chutney:
every year is a jar
has particular flavour
personal and historical
memory
7.
Features:
Mix imagination and history
Mix autobiography and
mythology
Subjectivity of history
Influenced by Indian and
British culture