De sataniske vers

Novel, Magic realism by Salman Rushdie

Blurb

De sataniske vers er en bog af den indisk-engelske forfatter Salman Rushdie. Da bogen blev udgivet i 1988 skabte den megen røre – især i den muslimske verden, da mange muslimer anså bogens indhold for blasfemisk, efterom Rushdie i et kapitel henviser til en apokryf muslimsk legende, hvori profeten Muhammed i et svagt øjeblik anerkender andre guddomme end Allah. Indien var det første land, der helt bandlyste bogen og andre lande fulgte siden hen trop.
Bogen omhandler de to indere Gibreel Farishta og Saladin Chamcha, der er på vej til England med det samme fly fra Indien. Flyet sprænges imidlertid i luften af terrorister, og Gibreel og Saladin styrter ned i Den engelske kanal. Mirakuløst nok overlever de faldet, men en mystisk forvandling finder sted, der omskaber Gibreel til et englelignende væsen, mens Saladin derimod får udseende og lugt som Djævlen. Bogen omhandler de to hovedpersoners forhistorie og de mange intriger og kaotiske begivenheder, der følger i kølvandet på den skæbnesvangre flykapring.
I et kapitel i bogen drømmer Gibreel om en person, der tydeligvis skal forestille profeten Muhammed.

First Published

1988

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Aleksandra.marinkovic

It is very hard to follow if you are not familiar with Hindu culture and if the translator was to lazy to look stuff up (like in Serbian) it is even worse. e.g. The translator would need to know who a gopi was in order to know that gopis was plural; if you were was to understand the character who "hung her hat shameless on a Chola Natraj", and other characters' perception of her, you would need to know Chola Natraj was a depiction of Vishnu made during Chola dynasty... I had to stop reading every time and look these things up (and I have nonstop internet, in 1988 people did not) - it feels like research for a college paper. There would be 5 references, one after another, in as many sentences.

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