On Silence and Voices in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
On Silence and Voices in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

Summary/Abstract: Our article, a part of a larger, undergoing, project, focuses on the role of silence and voices in Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children, which begins with the narrator’s expressed need to reveal the story of his family and of his life in a race against time in order to leave something behind. While the story is dominated by the need to communicate, by the presence of voices, by the issue of language, the episodes in which silence is referred to are also important, marking crucial moments in the text.

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