i wonder what it is then that brings you back to it again and again. I mean, it's obviously the the aesthetics of it. But i also wonder about the impact that it makes on you as a well. You know, molly blue soliloquy at the end of ulysses may be the best piece of writing that a man has ever done about a woman's interior life. A ana, wonderful writer of women. And also, it has the quality of great literature, which is that every time you read it, it gives you something elseit gives you something you didn't have the previous time.
Acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie joins journalist Razia Iqbal to take us back in time and discuss three influential touchstones of his life: a silver ingot engraved with an unpartitioned map of India, Bob Dylan’s ‘Mr. Tambourine man’, and James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’, a slightly intimidating but powerful inspiration.
This episode was originally released in 2021 as part of Intelligence Squared’s touchstones series and produced by Head of Podcasts Farah Jassat
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