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Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
Forty years is a long time. I have to say that India is no longer the country of this novel. When I wrote Midnight’s Children I had in mind an arc of history moving from the hope—the bloodied hope, but still the hope—of independence to the betrayal of that hope in the so-called Emergency, followed by the birth of a new hope. India today, to someone
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and the Kashmiri Sanskrit compendium called Katha-sarit-sagar (the “Ocean of the Streams of Story”).
Salman Rushdie • Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
For all its surrealist elements, Midnight’s Children is a history novel, looking for an answer to the great question history asks us: What is the relationship between society and the individual, between the macrocosm and the microcosm? To put it another way: Do we make history or does it make (or unmake) us?
Salman Rushdie • Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)
And my chutneys and kasaundies are, after all, connected to my nocturnal scribblings—by day amongst the pickle-vats, by night within these sheets, I spend my time at the great work of preserving. Memory, as well as fruit, is being saved from the corruption of the clocks.