![]() ![]() ![]() Having finished the book, I find consolation in the fact that “affairs” such as the one it provoked are one of the book’s principal themes. Today, in the countries where the book appears in translation, the situation is a little different, but still peculiar: it is impossible to read it without the recent controversy in mind. ![]() The passions unleashed by Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses seem at first glance to be a perfect example of what the novel itself identifies as postmodern sensibility, that of a society capable only of pastiche, which cultivates “the image instead of the reality.” Millions of Muslims condemned the book without having read it, and hundreds of writers defended it, I believe, under these same conditions. The Satanic Verses in Paris The Satanic Verses in Paris Tzvetan Todorov ▪ Winter 1990 ![]()
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