[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Salman Rushdi pun "marah" apabila dirinya digoda
- From: "Qisai" <qisai@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ppiindia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 05:54:38 -0000
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Salam,
Mungkin masih terbayang dalam benak kita tentang satu novel karya
salman rushdie yang berjudul "ayat-ayat setan".
Novel kontroversial yang menyinggung Islam ini berakibat kepada
pengeluaran fatwa hukuman mati bagi salman rushdie oleh Imam Khomeini.
Ketika membaca berita di koran The Times of India edisi Rabu, 23
Pebruari 2005, yang berita aslinya saya ikutkan dalam posting ini,
saya merasa heran ketika ternyata seorang salman rushdie yang
mengatakan bahwa apa yang ditulis didalam novel ayat ayat setan nya
tersebut hanyalah sebuah ungkapan kebebasan berbicara, bereaksi kasar
atas tulisan tentang istrinya, Padma Laksmi, yang dibuat oleh seorang
jurnalis fashion dan lifestyle NYT, Trebay.
Rushdie berkata:
"If you ever write mean things about my wife again, I'll come after
you with a baseball bat," the British tabloid, Sun , quoted.
Jadi menurut saya, reaksi Imam Khomeini saat itu tentang pengeluaran
fatwa hukuman mati bagi salman rushdi adalah sebuah reaksi yang wajar
dan tidak seharusnya menjadi polemik dan kontroversi yang saat itu
begitu banyak mendapatkan reaksi pro dan kontra apabila ternyata sang
penulis sendiri juga mempunyai reaksi yang serupa ketika "bagian"
dari dirinya dikritisi.
salam hangat dari India
Qisai
New Delhi
berikut ini kutipan berita yang saya refer diatas
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1028216,curpg-
1.cms
Rusdhie's fury knows no bounds
LONDON: Salman Rushdie has made his ultimate offering of love to his
wife of 10 months, the beauteous Padma Lakshmi, by reportedly
standing up for her and threatening caveman-style retribution if
journalists continue to see her as no more than a luxurious piece of
capitalist eye candy.
Rushdie, 57, and no stranger to journalistic bile, reportedly
threatened a New York Times ( NYT ) fashion and lifestyle journalist
with dire retribution unless he laid off Lakshmi, the Tamil-American
model-turned-actress 25 years his junior.
Trebay, whose teasing piece in the NYT , sketched an eponymous
picture of a "brand-name goddess basking in the moment (of media
glory)", apparently offended Rushdie when he mused that her silky
sinuousness was the perfect symbol of "the love of money and
commodity."
The comment enraged Rushdie and drew him to drift up to Trebay at a
function in New York, where the novelist and his fourth wife now
live.
"If you ever write mean things about my wife again, I'll come after
you with a baseball bat," the British tabloid, Sun , quoted Rushdie
as saying.
Rushdie's ire, which had obviously festered, came nearly a fortnight
after Trebay's light-hearted comments on Lakshmi.
The tabloid was silent on whether or not Rushdie was serious about
his outrage and his overwhelming desire for a direct physical
expression of it. On Tuesday, Rushdie too was silent about the story,
which made its way round the world as a sign the celebrated novelist
may probably love his luminous Lakshmi not wisely, but too well.
Rushdie's silence was in marked contrast to a growing tendency of
late, to be supremely quick off the bat with rejoinders to
journalistic tittle-tattle. Before news of the threatened baseball
bat episode broke, Rushdie was embroiled in a public, bad-tempered
exchange of letters in The Sunday Times , London, because a book
reviewer had dredged up a four-year-old piece on Rajasthan in which
Rushdie described the tourist honeytrap as "colourful".
Reviewer Patrick French used Rushdie's careless Western
categorisation to show the Mumbai-born writer as an out-of-
touch "insider-outsider". Instead of ignoring the slur, Rushdie wrote
to the London paper, with the caterwauling complaint: "I should be
used to being misrepresented by now..."
Wags said it may be time to stand by for more Rushdie rant and
retort. But many believe the novelist's defence of Lakshmi is of a
piece with a very public, real and abiding passion for the woman he
has lived with for six years.
Fury was a loosely-autobigraphical novel about an older British
Indian scholarly man who leaves Blighty, wife and child for New York
and new beginnings with the divinely beautiful young Neela. In the
novel, the ageing, unlikely hero springs to Neela's defence when she
executes a madcap plan to help with a revolutionary uprising. Though
a piece of journalistic prose may not be in the same league, Rushdie
may be letting real life finally follow his magic-realism fiction.
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