''Fury'', published in 2001, is the seventh novel by author
Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and We ...
. Rushdie depicts contemporary New York City as the epicenter of
globalization
Globalization, or globalisation (English in the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth English; American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), see spelling differences), is the process of foreign relation ...
and all of its tragic flaws.
Plot summary
Malik Solanka, a Cambridge-educated millionaire from
Bombay
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second-m ...
, is looking for an escape from himself. At first he escapes from his academic life by immersing himself into a world of miniatures (after becoming enamored with the miniature houses on display at the
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Ste ...
), eventually creating a puppet called "Little Brain" and leaving the academy for television.
However, dissatisfaction with the rising popularity of "Little Brain" serves to ignite deeper demons within Solanka's life, resulting in the narrowly avoided murder of his wife and child. To further escape, Solanka travels to New York, hopeful he can lose himself and his demons in America, only to find that he is forced to confront himself.
Further reading
*Brouillette, Sarah. ‘Authorship as crisis in Salman Rushdie’s Fury’, Sage Publications, (2005)
*Eder, Richard. “The Beast in Me: Review of Fury by Salman Rushdie” New York Times, (2001)
*Gonzalez, Madelena. "United States of Banana (2011), Elizabeth Costello (2003) and Fury (2001): Portrait of the Writer as the ‘Bad Subject’of Globalisation." Études britanniques contemporaines. Revue de la Société dʼétudes anglaises contemporaines 46 (2014)
*Zucker, David J. "Fury Meets and Greets Sabbath's Theater: Salman Rushdie's Homage to Philip Roth." Philip Roth Studies 9, no. 2 (2013): 85-90.
*Zimring, Rishona. "The passionate cosmopolitan in Salman Rushdie's Fury."Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46, no. 1 (2010): 5-16.
References
Novels by Salman Rushdie
2001 British novels
Jonathan Cape books
Novels set in Mumbai
Novels set in New York City
Indian diaspora in fiction
Indian-American novels
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