Resumo de The Moor''s Last Sigh

SALMAN RUSHDIE AND THE MOOR''S LAST SIGH

THE TREMENDOUS PRESSURE exerted by a cruel death fatwa edicted by a religious
zealot on a creative writer forced out of the writer Salman Rushdie a tremendous novel
of epic proportions. And the book has the feel and pace of like it was written in one
sitting - so complete and coherently welltold is the tale and its "history".

The consideration of the contextual matrix in which the novel was written is inevitable:
Salman Rushdie was writing from a point of tension in his own personal life.
Since the death fatwa and his sudden "withdrawal" into hiding (and into himself!) Salman
was living his life in solitude and deep introspection - minutely examining the "seam of a
golden tale" peeping out from beneath the quarry of life that is India.

The Moor''s Last SIGH is a tale that had been slowly forming in the author''s fore-
consciousness or subconscious mind before the fatwa was edicted; it was suddenly impulsed into being by the pressure of the "death to the infidel!" edict proclaimed by the
Ayatollah which forced Mr. Rushdie to "dig deep within" to find a meaning for the predicament in which he found himself.
He wanted to write the answer into visible existence....

And thus, chicken style, he scratches beneath the surface of the everyday seeming of India''s social life and exposes not a Buddhic idyll but a very teeming of frail struggling
selfish humanity rushing headlong into the abyss of selfdestruction; a dysfunctional family at war with itself and its false values. Yet just a (s)light scratch (of the pen) exposes tremendous truths of bygone days that the laser-concerntration mind of our pressured author refuses to let lie beneath the surface undisturbed.

The death fatwa fails to reduce Salman Rushdie into an abandoned and deserted self-
pitying mess of an incoherent human being incapacitated by fear.
The Moor''s Last Sigh brings out the "best writer" within Salman Rushdie as he is able to paste his own recognizable psychological anguish into the tale and its characters. It is hard for the reader not to look "behind the pages" and find there the wide-eyed alert author
juggling the nuggets of truth rather skillfully.......

Not even the malformed hand of the narrator renders him less capable - he emerges from the dungeons and pits into the light to pursue "the light" of a family glimmer to the ends of the Earth. As does the author pursued by a dark overhanging (crippling!) threat of danger and death emerge regularly into the bright lights of public fora to sympathetic appreciative
applause.

Thus The Moor''s Last Sigh is the psychological out-pouring of a very capable author writing in extremis, telling a tale that had to be told as a contribution to the world''s literary
tradition and Culture.
An excellent book, an excellent read; welldone Mr. Salman Rushdie - you are a born story
teller, novelist and a master of the pen!
Indeed God does bring "good out of evil"!

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