{"id":390,"date":"2004-09-16T16:35:31","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T21:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=390"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:20","slug":"how_rushdie_got","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/how_rushdie_got\/","title":{"rendered":"How Rushdie got his groove back, an aria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Salman Rushdie has adapted Haroun and the Sea of Stories<\/i> into an opera playing at Manhattan’s Lincoln Center from Oct. 31 to Nov. 11<\/a>. Haroun<\/i> is a fabulist children’s tale, more accessible than his usual work, but still layered with allegory:<\/p>\n\n

Haroun narrates the fate of the story-teller, who loses his ability to tell tales. His son then sets out on a journey to save his father’s skills. Rushdie had intended the book as a gift to his son Zafar… to make the son understand his father’s plight…\n\n[T]he book reached out to audiences uncomfortable with the complexities of Rushdie’s other novels…\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Rushdie found the process of adaptation taxing<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

\nS.R. It\u00c2\u2019s a strange book, Haroun.<\/i> This was the one that came with the greatest fluency\u00c2\u2014it took me less than a year, and it\u00c2\u2019s now taken ten times that long to adapt, so you know this is a much larger achievement…\n\nC.W. There\u00c2\u2019s a practical reason for that. Its brevity makes it a little bit more manageable. I mean, I have my eye on The Moor\u00c2\u2019s Last Sigh…<\/i>\n\nS.R. Yes, that would be a very long opera.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Rushdie’s last stage adaptation was the excellent, albeit rushed, Midnight’s Children<\/i> in London and at the Apollo Theater in Harlem<\/a>. He’s also working on a film version of his short story The Firebird’s Nest<\/a>,<\/i> in which he’s cast his inamorata Padma Lakshmi.<\/p>\n\n

Update:<\/b> Amardeep Singh<\/a> has more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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