Step Across The Line By Salman Rushdie PDF

Step Across This Line begins and ends with stories for children. The first piece in this 10-year collection of essays, newspaper columns and speeches is a wise and funny meditation on The Wizard of Oz; the last, the Tanner Lectures on Human Values given at Yale this year, opens with Alice in Wonderland, a medieval Sufi Muslim poet's story of a conference of birds, and Arthur and Merlin in TH White's The Sword in the Stone.

These narratives (as much loved by adults as by children) give Salman Rushdie one of his main themes and beliefs, the value of leaving home and crossing frontiers (linguistic, intellectual, imaginative, racial, geographic), of learning that "once we have left our childhood places and started to make up our own lives, armed only with what we have and are, we understand... that there is no longer any such place as home; except, of course, for the home we make".

"The crossing of borders, of language, geography and culture; the examination of the permeable frontier between the universe of things and deeds and the universe of the imagination; the lowering of the intolerable frontiers created by the world's many different kinds of thought policemen: these matters have been at the heart of the literary project that was given to me by the circumstances of my life, rather than chosen by me for intellectual or 'artistic' reasons."

This is a writer who has travelled a long way from home and who, for a considerable and terrible section of his life, was not allowed to have a home. But it's characteristic that he should, all the same, be so absorbed in childhood stories, fables, memories, and homes. The Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen thought that all writers are essentially childish, or retain something of a child's vision: "Somewhere... behind the words, a responsive, querying innocence stays intact", she said in an essay of 1952 called "The Roving Eye".

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