1. Midnight’s Children

2. 
Salman Rushdie...
 post-colonial Indian writer
 born in Bombay (1947)
 moved to England as a
teenager
 won the Broker Prize (1981)

3. His works:
 Grimus
 Midnight’s Children
(the most important work)
 Shame
 The Satanic Verses
(considered blasphemous by Muslims)

4. 
Midnight’s Children
 Novel
 Protagonist: Saleem Sinai
 Birth: midnight 15 August 1947
(day of Indian Indipendence)
 Salim recounts his life
 Life interwoven with history

5.  1001 children born that day
 Considered to have powers:
 Transmutation
 Magic
 Flight
 Prophecy

6.  His life = jars of chutney:
 every year is a jar
 has particular flavour
 personal and historical
memory

7. 
Features:
 Mix imagination and history
 Mix autobiography and
mythology
 Subjectivity of history
 Influenced by Indian and
British culture

8. VB Liceo Scientifico Marie Curie
IISS Monopoli a.s. 2012/2013