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21 juillet 2021
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Mélanie Heydari-Malayeri, « “Bastardizing” The Conference of the Birds in Salman Rushdie’s Grimus », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.5507
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Grimus has been largely ignored by postcolonial critics and is seldom studied on its own terms. This paper examines the iconoclastic, pattern-breaking pattern of Rushdie’s first novel. A parody of The Conference of the Birds – an allegory by the major twelfth-century Persian poet Attar – Grimus is characterized by a carnivalesque sense of the world. The novel challenges the foundation upon which this masterpiece of Sufi literature is constructed, revealing Rushdie’s deep-seated aversion to the bogey of authenticity.