Saleem Sinai şi istoria lui. Timpul în Copiii din miez de noapte
Saleem Sinai and His History. Time in Midnight’s Children

Summary/Abstract: The present article analyzes the way the issue of time is dealt in Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children. The essence of the novel springs from the relation between Saleem Sinai, the unreliable narrator who re-writes the history of India, India, the sum of myths and dreams of its people, and time, the multi-layered participant in Saleem’s story. Saleem offers a personal account of the history of India based on the merging of reality and fiction, of reality and the fantastic. Time takes different forms: subjective/ objective, mythical/ real. Two layers define time and history: the time of miracles- associated to the mythical India- and the time of aggression – the time of changes, the time of a new India. Using irony, metaphor and symbols, Rushdie questions the truth of official histories, emphasizing the possibilities of literature to re-create the past.

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