Jon Snow interviews Salman Rushdie
Updated on 21 April 2008
Ahead of the release of The Enchantress of Florence, Jon Snow talks to author Salman Rushdie on beauty and US politics.
Extracts from the interview
"I thought I was writing about two worlds that were entirely alien to each other... the thing that happened was I discovered was how much alike they were."
Humanistic philosophy, which says that man, not God is the centre if the story is something which is not just a Western idea."
"The novel becomes a conversation across space and time."
"I think we were always brutal, this is the nature of the species."
"If you write about the past you find yourself automatically writing about the present."
