![]() ![]() ![]() But one day, his wife left him for an accountant (a very non-imaginative profession), and Rashid himself became sad. He was a storyteller, and his stories allowed the people to maintain some kind of joy. One man, Rashid, kept the city from complete despair. It is a metaphor to criticize the factories where people are unhappy. Of course, manufactures of sadness are not real manufactures. The reason why the city is so sad is that on the edge of it are the manufactures of sadness, and they pollute the air. And since several have the same letter-name, it takes a very long time for mail to be delivered to the right address. ![]() It begins like a fairy tale: There was once, in the country of Alifbay, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad it had forgotten its name.Īlifbay is another way of saying alphabet, because in that country the cities do not have names, but letters. The plot of the novel is rather hard to follow, but the main lines are: The text below is an extract from Haroun and the Sea of Stories, a very strange tale about where stories come from and how they operate. You can see him in the movie Bridget Jones’s Diary, where his presence is used in a very comical way, to show how insignificant and clumsy Bridget is:Ī much more serious summary of who he is can be found here: He is considered as one of the most significant thinkers in writing theories. Salman Rushdie is one of the most widely praised living writers. ![]()
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