![]() ![]() Like so many of Rushdie's earlier novels "The Ground Beneath Her Feet" addresses the themes of exile, metamorphosis and flux, and like those earlier books it examines such issues through the prism of multipleĭichotomies: between home and rootlessness, love and death, East and West, reason and the irrational. Love and death and art, and cliched descriptions of the rock 'n' roll business worthy of Jackie Collins. Picture Orpheus trying to recapture his beloved (or at least her memory) by going on a worldwide stadiumĭespite Rushdie's myriad talents as a writer, the resulting novel is a decidedly disappointing performance: a handful of dazzling set pieces, bundled together with long-winded digressions, tiresome soliloquizing about ![]() Picture Eurydice not only being condemned to Hades but also being literally swallowed by the ground during an earthquake. Picture Orpheus (one Ormus Cama, in Rushdie's telling) as a brooding, kitschy combo of Elvis, Dylan and Lennon and Eurydice (that is, Vina Apsara) as a sort of fairy-tale composite of Madonna and Diana, princess of Wales. ![]() He Ground Beneath Her Feet," Salman Rushdie's loose, baggy monster of a new novel, is a retelling of the Orpheus myth that recasts both theĭoomed musician and his lost lady love as rock stars. Books of The Times: 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet': Turning Rock 'N' Roll Into QuakesīOOKS OF THE TIMES 'The Ground Beneath Her Feet': Turning Rock 'N' Roll Into Quakes By MICHIKO KAKUTANI ![]()
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