Midnight's Children
(SALMAN RUSHDIE)
Midnight'sChildren, a novel that spans about 70 years, won the writer Salman Rushdie, theBooker Prize in the year 1981.This novel of 463 pages is a political novel, butit transcends politics and creates an enriching vigor to the culture of urbanIndia.The novel is an exposition of the Indian sub- continent, through the eyesof Saleem ,a young man who was born at the stroke of midnight- the hour ofIndianIndependence.One of the major reasons was that,for the first time a novel by an Indianwriter was reflecting the spirit of the western world.. Midnight's Children wasa path-breaking novel in many ways.A work that genuinely crossed allborder, new classifications were sought because it challengedfiction, literature,historyand reality. It merged fact and fiction, myth and history , story-tellingand novelistic conventions and defied all rules for writing fiction andmade itobligatory to find a new genre. As the name suggests, it is an amalgamation ofhistory and reality. The only difference is that it deals withimaginative events that take place in an historical events. Theamazing response to the novel in the West, heralded a new era for the so longmarginalised section. Though it was the West that created a vaccum for a novellike Midnight's Children by giving its claims to being literarymasters,the novel is fundamental in making the marginalised voices eloquent,which by itself , literary event for any novel. The novel and the writerhave subsequently become examples for debateson multiculturalism, postmodernism, migrancy and hybridity, issues that havecaught the attention of the western world.The novel is to date, one of thegreatest contributions to English literature by an Indian writer.Just as India's freedom from the British rule made it apolitical and national event Saleem's birth on the same midnight madethehistory of his life a literary event.
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