[lbo-talk] SIR SALMAN'S LONG JOURNEY

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Russell Grinker" <grinker at mweb.co.za>
>
>The Guardian
>June 18, 2007
>
>SIR SALMAN'S LONG JOURNEY
>
>Rushdie's knighthood is a reward for abandoning the anti-establishment
>stance he once espoused
>
>by Priyamvada Gopal
>
>... Rushdie has abdicated his own understanding of the novelist's task as
>"giving the lie to official facts". Now he recalls his own creation Baal,
>the talented poet who becomes a giggling hack coralled into attacking his
>ruler's enemies. ...

Reminds me of V. S. Naipaul, who was knighted in 1990 and whom I've found 
unreadable for many years.  I believe Naipaul's politics are now well to the 
right of Rudyard Kipling's.

Carl

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