ABSTRACT

This essay analyses Rushdie’s novel The Golden House and his memoir Joseph Anton to explore entanglements between fact and fiction, raising questions about the perception and use of realism and postmodernism as aesthetic categories and narrative modes in twenty-first-century literature. At the centre of both texts are concerns with identity, politics, mystery, deception and revelation in what is referred to as the ‘post-truth’ era – ushered in by the ‘Rushdie affair’. The argument focuses on the pursuit of truth and interplay of genres in Rushdie’s texts which employ a mode of storytelling best described as a kind of ‘operatic realism’.

摘要

本文分析了拉什迪的小说《黄金屋》和他的回忆录约瑟夫·安东，以探讨事实与小说之间的纠缠，提出了关于现实主义和后现代主义作为二十一世纪文学中的审美范畴和叙事方式的感知和使用的问题。在这两个文本的中心都是关于身份，政治，神秘，欺骗和启示的关注，这就是所谓的“后真相”时代-由“拉什迪事件”引发。该论点着重于拉什迪文本中对真理的追求和体裁的相互作用，这些文本采用了一种讲故事的方式，最好地描述为一种“歌剧现实主义”。