Grimus

Grimus is the first novel by Salman Rushdie. He appeared in 1975.

Action

Flapping Eagle, a young Indian who flees to the death of his mother and his sister. A magician gives him an immortality elixir. The immortality he experiences first a blessing, then as load. Of eternal life weary, he is looking for more adventures again on the mage, which would allow him to die.

Comments

The title is an anagram of Grimus Simurg, a mythical creature with the pre-Islamic Persian mythology.

Grimus Salman Rushdie weaves in mythology, magic, religion, and philosophy.

Many of the motifs used in Grimus Salman Rushdie, he developed in his later novels on, for example, a search for identity and displacement.

Reception

Because Grimus no political sensitivity or historical analogy has, like other novels, and Salman Rushdie in 1981 with his second novel, Midnight's Children was famous, Grimus, and the importance of the novel in Rushdie's oeuvre is often overlooked.

Novels: Grimus | midnight children | shame and disgrace | The Satanic Verses | Haroun and the Sea of ​​Stories | The Moor's Last Sigh | The ground beneath her ​​feet | anger | Shalimar the Clown | The Enchantress of Florence | Luka and the Fire of Life

Other writings: Smile of the Jaguars. A journey through Nicaragua | East West | The Wizard of Oz | home countries of the imagination. Essays and criticism 1981-1991 | If you exceed this limit! writings 1992-2002

Autobiography of Joseph Anton

• Literary work
• Literature ( English )
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Novel, epic
• Salman Rushdie