While Salman Rushdie, the author of midnight children and of joseph Anthonyis still recovering from the violent knife attack he survived on August 12, this is an opportunity to get to know each other better. Truth languages. Trials 2003-2020 brings together two decades of spiritual and sensitive reflections on literature, art, politics, through course sessions, conferences, prefaces and articles published in journals or daily newspapers (Charlie Hebdo, The New York Times). While previous collections of essays by the American-British writer of Indian origin (imaginary homelands and Cross the line) have made history, here are some forty texts, always revised, which form the chronicle of his intellectual and literary commitments over the past twenty years. Apart from a few autobiographical points, the writer, still standing despite the fatwa that has weighed on him for 33 years, is particularly interested in the art of storytelling, a need he believes is essential for human beings.
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