Word: solankaã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2001-2001
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three women in Solanka??€™s life (clearly Solanka is the heart-throb of a short, middle-aged professorial type, having made his way through three tall, beautiful women in the course of a single summer) become avatars of the Eumenides, the ancient Furies, and Solanka??€™s struggle with each of them in his creative, familial and romantic lives is the meat of the book. Yet the most poignant, underplayed aspect of the book is Solanka??€™s relationship with his three-year-old son. It is here that the novel exudes the warmth and heart...
...biting) portrayal of an actual acquaintance of Rushdie’s, though for those of us outside the know, she is fairly superfluous. Although Rushdie’s New York is peopled with minutely observed passersby, victims and perpetrators of infidelity and callousness, all of whom are fuel for Solanka??€™s and their own pervading fury, at times they are reduced to the simplistic categorisations that Solanka (and I suspect Rushdie) detest in others...
...there is something unsatisfying in her portrayal. She is characterized in terms of her beauty, which Rushdie is forced to describe in terms of its (hazardous) effects on her surroundings: arrested traffic, collisions with lamp posts and occasional tears. But the reader is given little reason to sympathize with Solanka??€™s love for Neela besides her beauty. We are given only the briefest insight into her background, and her passion for her native country’s freedom remains a background consideration until the novel’s final pages. In contrast, a male friend of Solanka?...
| 1 |