PUPPETEERS, CRAFTSMEN, ARTISTS. REPRESENTATIONS OF ART AND OF THE ARTIST IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S WORKS
PUPPETEERS, CRAFTSMEN, ARTISTS. REPRESENTATIONS OF ART AND OF THE ARTIST IN SALMAN RUSHDIE’S WORKS

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to provide an overview of the condition of the artist and the work of art in the vision of a contemporary British writer - Salman Rushdie - with reference, in particular, to the novels Fury and Shame. The paper starts with a presentation of the role that imagination plays in the composition of the work of art to the writer who is the subject of this study. We conclude that the boundaries between art and fiction are, as Rushdie demonstrates, extremely blurry. Perhaps it would not be an exaggeration to see our contemporaries as "homo fabulans" –defined by the telling and interpretation of "stories" (as Paul Ricoeur suggests). Ultimately, for us, those living in postmodernity, it is not the fiction that is being questioned, but reality.

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