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sloejoe 's review for:
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
A monumental novel that’s a family saga linked to the history of independent India but also (forgive me the cliché Saleem) so much more.
There’s allegory, allusion, recurrences, and logic. The logic – the magic/supernatural connections between characters born at the time of independence and the life of the country that started that day – is just so enjoyable and makes the mysterious coherent. Myth is a major theme. The subjectivity of the fictional author and metatextuality is hugely important. And I think I’ve barely scratched the surface of interesting things to say about Midnight’s Children.
I worried the sheer weight of the accumulated narrative would be too much by the end but the finale is wonderful and resolves as neatly as all the preceding episodes do.
This was published the year I was born which I find pretty funny…
There’s allegory, allusion, recurrences, and logic. The logic – the magic/supernatural connections between characters born at the time of independence and the life of the country that started that day – is just so enjoyable and makes the mysterious coherent. Myth is a major theme. The subjectivity of the fictional author and metatextuality is hugely important. And I think I’ve barely scratched the surface of interesting things to say about Midnight’s Children.
I worried the sheer weight of the accumulated narrative would be too much by the end but the finale is wonderful and resolves as neatly as all the preceding episodes do.
This was published the year I was born which I find pretty funny…