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Shvoong Home>Arts & Humanities>Arts>Salman Rushdie: Beautiful and Cruel: Summary

Salman Rushdie: Beautiful and Cruel:

Article Summary   by:SM THOMPSON     Original Author: Salman Rushdie
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Not much seems to happen in Kazuo Ishiguro's : The Remains of the Day - but just below the novel's perfectly
still surface, Salman Rushdie detects a turbulence as immense as it it slow - an engaging line if ever I read one and
Ishiguro says of: The Remains of the Day - in the - Paris Review - interview - The Art of Fiction - one of the ways I thought I could do this was to take a myth of England that was known internationally in this case, the English utler:

And the article continues - Jeeves ws a big influence - a necessary genuflection - no literary butler can ever qiite escape the gravitational field of Wodehouse's shimmering Reginald, gentleman's gentleman par excellence, saviour, so often of Bertie Wooster's imperilled bacon - and how I adored that classic series in a sort of black ad white reminescence of tv after I returned from town to country at the weekend from the bank to dine on fine food and watch Bertie on TV!

But let me continue with Salman Rushdie - and his wonderful command of language and easy flow of language in a quintessentially poetic manner and with such eloquence that I rarely digress to add my own pertinent comment.

Rushdie: the Wodehousian canon Jeeves does not stand alone - behind him can be seen the rather more louche figure of the Earl of Emsworth's man Sebastian Beach enjoying a quieet tipple in the butler's pantry at Blandings Castle. And other butlers - Meadowes, Maple, Mulready, Purvis - float in and out of Wodehouse's world not all of them pillars of probity! that's a wonderful summary of butlers and the butlers butler!

Gordon Jackson and his portrayal of stoic Hudson in the TV series: - Upstairs, Downstairs - 1970s
Reference to Julian Fellows TV Drama - The Remains of the Day - demolishes the value system of the upstairs-downstairs world.

But death, pain and evil invade the innocent Wodehouse-world and here we must leave you to discover more of it all as readers - thanks Salman Rushdie - Great work pays UP!
Published: August 19, 2012   
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