![]() ![]() ![]() It incorporates many of the themes of Rushdie's other works magic realism, identity, and politics, amongst others.Ĭritics have also read Haroun in terms of the personal and political struggles that Rushdie experienced during the fatwa issued against him by the leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for his novel The Satanic Verses. The surface tension of the novel is the relationship between a father and a son, yet the deeper meaning of the novel centers on the meaning of stories and storytelling. In terms of genre, Rushdie wrote the novel as something that children would enjoy but that adults would understand. According to Rushdie, "I would have these basic motifs, like the Sea of Stories, but each time I would improvise-not only to please him but to test myself, to see if I could just say something and take it elsewhere." By beginning the novel's stories in oral form, Rushdie mirrors the challenge of the character of Rashid: how to create meaningful stories in a world that does not value fantasy. ![]() Rushdie began comprising the stories in the book by telling them to his son during bath time. Rushdie made a deal with his son that the next novel he wrote would be for children. During this time, Rushdie's nine-year-old son, Zafar, chastised his father for not writing books that children could read. Salmon Rushdie first began orally composing the stories that comprise Haroun and the Sea of Stories while writing his famous novel The Satanic Verses. ![]()
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