In another era, it would be easier to champion Salman Rushdie for what he is, a writer of prodigious if uneven talent who deserves his international reputation; if, for example, Midnight’s Children or Shame had been the novel called upon to test “the mighty principle” of free speech. Referensi Artikel bertopik novel ini adalah sebuah rintisan. In: Books, Reviews. Recent Posts. “You saw an illusion and you destroyed your family for it,” his third wife told him bitterly. AN Wilson on Salman Rushdie's memoir, 'Joseph Anton' By An Wilson 21 September 2012 • 17:00 pm . His wives themselves are described much less flatteringly as gold-diggers or nags, squeezing Anton for more alimony or progeny. En lire plus. Under the threat of death, Salman Rushdie has written the sentences of his life in his long-awaited memoir Joseph Anton, argues Nicholas Shakespeare. Now that the battle has spread to Britain, I only hope it will not be lost by default. She slept with his best friend, Bill Buford, rented a house in America without telling him and, like a true assassin, gave an interview to the Sunday Times about his vanity and arrogance. On page 609, Joseph Anton has no good answer to the question, "Who have you ever made happy?" All this was also on the front pages into which, as Martin Amis famously remarked, Rushdie "vanished" soon after the fatwa. There are fascinating details about Rushdie's parents in the memoir's early pages, which also appealingly evoke his years as a struggling writer with his first wife, Clarissa; few readers would fail, later in the book, to be moved by the account of her death and Rushdie's grief-tinged recall of his superseded self. Review of Joseph Anton: A Memoir. Touching, Narcissistic, pleasurable, un-rushdiesque, all at the same time! Responding to the coverage in India Today, some self-proclaimed leaders of Indian Muslims demanded a ban on The Satanic Verses. Joseph Anton – a sort of review. Choral Sheet music › Choral SSAATTBB › Joseph Anton Bruckner . . A naive beguilement rather than sly irony frames Rushdie's accounts of hanging out with such very famous people as Jerry Seinfeld and Calista Flockhart. His home was now a series of safe houses in England which, incredibly and wrongly, he had to find and pay for. Bruckner, Joseph Anton. When the British government gave Salman … Follow. By: On: October 14, 2012. Tag Archives: Joseph anton review Post navigation Joseph Anton: A memoir by Salman Rushdie. by Caitlin Moran Nonfiction. And William Styron's genitalia are unexpectedly on display one convivial evening at Martha's Vineyard. by Kurt Vonnegut Nonfiction. Politics Book Review: Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie. The ayatollah's cruelty and malice made many of Rushdie's choices for him. by Ellen Forney Nonfiction. Salman Rushdie’s memoir relates the menace—and perks—of living as a marked man Akash Kapur. Primarily a memoir about the almost decade long siege Salman Rushdie was under due to the Fatwa, it is also an eloquent treatise for free speech and its value to the world where it has increasingly come under attack. Criticising George Orwell for having advocated political quietism to writers, Rushdie asserted that "we are all irradiated by history, we are radioactive with history and politics" and that, "in this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. And the book is, too: It offers a snapshot of literary and cultural production from a different era. Joseph Anton conveys a clear and shaming picture of his ordeal – the soul-numbing humiliations of a subterranean existence, the scurrying from one safehouse to another, and the endless negotiations with security staff for a few slivers of ordinary life. Esprit vous offre encore : 3 visites Déjà abonné ? Not just individuals, entire countries, even races are judged, and frequently found wanting. Joseph calls Zionsville, PA, home. (It perhaps has an echo, too, of Kafka’s Joseph K., that other victim of interminable persecution.) by Damien Echols Nonfiction. Afficher les profils des personnes qui s’appellent Anton Joseph. Joseph Anton - a pseudonym conjured by the author joining first names of Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekov - tries to be different things at the same time and succeeds brilliantly. In Joseph Anton, however, Rushdie continues to reveal an unwillingness or inability to grasp them, or to abandon the conceit, useful in fiction but misleading outside it, that the personal is the geopolitical. Finaliste du prix Médicis étranger 2012 qui sera décerné la semaine prochaine, Joseph Anton, une autobiographie, de Salman Rushdie, est un des livres marquants de cette rentrée littéraire. Unable to comprehend that artistic license & critical thought could be turned toward the Islamic faith and its prophet, Mohamed, Khomeini declared a 'fatwa' on … Joseph Anton is a splendid book, the finest new memoir to cross my desk in many a year -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Funny, painfully moving and absolutely necessary to read -- Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph Joseph Anton is a book that makes you laugh. The Danes lay on a battleship to protect Anton, who falls "in love with the Nordic peoples because of their adherence to the highest principles of freedom". WILD. He has a cartoonist’s tic of describing those who defend him as “great” or “legendary”, those who do not as “malevolent gnomes” or, in the case of Roald Dahl, “a long, unpleasant man with huge strangler’s hands”; and those who sleep with him as “beautiful”. • Pankaj Mishra's From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia is published by Allen Lane. We learn uneasily of, among other infidelities, his wine-induced adultery with Jack Lang's "beautiful and brilliant daughter". Iranian agents killed Shapour Bakhtiar, the Shah’s prime minister, in Paris. Review of Joseph Anton: A Memoir. Salman Rushdie’s Joseph Anton: A Memoir is an engaging account of Rushdie’s life in the aftermath of the fatwa issued against him in 1989 (in effect, the Ayatollah Khomeini sentenced him to death for blasphemy against the Prophet for his novel, The Satanic Verses). Joseph Anton is hardly a conventional memoir. . Listen to "Joseph Anton A Memoir" by Salman Rushdie available from Rakuten Kobo. This not only stoked a long-simmering anti-westernism in Iran, which had been occupied by Russia and Britain during both world wars, and then suffered for decades the brutal dictatorship of the pro-American shah. But then authorial intentions barely seemed to matter to readers bringing to the book their own particular backgrounds, worldviews and prejudices. Christopher Hitchens's gloss on Islam was not untypical: "the very word is like the echo of a forehead knocking repeatedly on the floor, while the buttocks are proffered to the empty, unfeeling sky." WILD. It gets very tedious in the middle of those 633 pages. Instead, that role fell to The Satanic Verses, which in Rushdie’s harshest self-assessment was “a little gawky”, and in the opinion of other critics (among them Hermione Lee, Claire Tomalin, George Steiner, John Berger, Doris Lessing, John le Carré, Bernard Levin, Roald Dahl) was perhaps less wonderful than his earlier work. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPage On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Praise for Joseph Anton ... Rushdie’s eye is a camera lens —firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Unflinchingly honest . I recently listened to Salman Rushdie’s memoir, entitled Joseph Anton (Amazon affiliate link), which is a general overview of his life with a particular focus on the time he spent hiding from a fatwa declared against him by Ayatollah Khomeini. I just do not understand. Praise for Joseph Anton ... Rushdie’s eye is a camera lens —firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Unflinchingly honest . I was not yet a … Buku tersebut dipublikasikan pada September 2012 oleh Random House. Fanatics and fundamentalists, non-Muslim as well as Muslim, remain a blight on many South Asian and Middle Eastern societies; sometimes, they violently disrupt public life in the west. “Joseph Anton” is the story behind the story for those of us old enough to remember what happened. Salman Rushdie 18 июл 2013 в 12:25. Titled Joseph Anton, it talks to us about how life changed for Rushdie post Fatwa in 1989, for his book ‘Satanic Verses’. PoliticsBookReviews. A pre-publication review in the Indian newsweekly India Today revealed that Rushdie had irreverently rewritten the life of the Prophet, the paradigmatic figure of virtue for all Muslims, naming him Mahound, the term used to identify him as a devil in medieval Christian caricature, and placing his 12 wives in a brothel. He has dared to go on and on, ceaselessly reminding us of the barbaric and unacceptable response to that imaginative fiction, and to convince the progressive world, whatever it might think of Rushdie and his work, that it really has no choice but to join his friends’ protective ring. Yet the memoir, at 650 pages, often feels too long, over-dependent on Rushdie's journals, and unquickened by hindsight, or its prose. He was the product of a male-child-obsessed culture in Bombay: the only son of a nuclear gossip and an alcoholic, godless father who died bankrupt after trying to restructure the Koran to make it more readable. Review Posted Online: Sept. 30th, 2012. I suggested the Greek Orthodox church in Bayswater, where I too would be going for the memorial service of our mutual friend, Bruce Chatwin. Identifiez-vous. Praise for Joseph Anton ... Rushdie’s eye is a camera lens —firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Unflinchingly honest . It is written in the third person, a conceit that works well enough as a way of recounting the alienating experience of living under cover while hearing one's real name condemned by Muslim leaders world-wide. . Rushdie engagingly reveals the autobiographical energies that went into the making of such novels as The Satanic Verses and Fury. He, growing up in the Muslim culture, had never heard that wordnor had the rest of the Western world. Halaman ini terakhir diubah pada 22 Desember 2020, pukul 01.51. The memoir talks about the long period that author was living in hiding, protected by the British security. About / Member testimonies. I hesitated to review this book because my prose pale in comparison to those of Salman Rushdie. . . Praise for Joseph Anton ... Rushdie’s eye is a camera lens —firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Unflinchingly honest . Rushdie's exemplary record of anti-racism amounted to little as demonstrators in Bradford ceremoniously burnt a copy of The Satanic Verses. However, Joseph Anton describes more accurately, if inadvertently, how Rushdie re-emerged, after the strangest ever writerly journey, in the gossip pages, aureoled by the wealth, power and glamour of the western world. by Caitlin Moran Nonfiction. December 9, 2012 by onelinerreviews. It is a tragedy when anyone has to hide behind a fake name out of fear. "You set out sincerely to change my life for the better," he writes, and though this "may not quite cancel out the invasion of Iraq", it does weigh in his "personal scales". Salman Rushdie.” In another irony, it was in Australia that Rushdie came closest to dying, not from a .44 soft-nosed bullet, but when his Holden collided with an articulated lorry containing fertiliser, in the literary-sounding town of Milton. Ostensibly deployed as a distancing device, the third-person narration frequently makes for awkward self-regard ("The clouds thickened over his head. Joseph Anton, the nom de guerre for Salman Rushdie during his years under police protection, is the answer for those of us who wondered and worried about Rushdie after the ayatollah Khomeini put a price on his head in 1989. After one "lovely evening" at Chequers, where the singer Mick Hucknall's "hot girlfriend" is distractingly present, Anton confesses to a "soft spot" for Tony Blair. Visit www.PoliticsBookMix.com for more politics book reviews! In this atmosphere of "anti-Muslim feeling", as Bhikhu Parekh described it, most Muslims were seen as fundamentalists or "illiterate peasants preferring the sleep of superstition to liberal light, and placed outside civilised discourse". Tag Archives: Joseph anton review Post navigation Joseph Anton: A memoir by Salman Rushdie. Like “Funes the Memorious”, Rushdie tells it in great detail. JOSEPH ANTON … Salman … The Satanic Verses itself is less about the immigrant condition than a helplessly Anglophilic Indian's profound ambivalence about a British ruling class that regards him as a wog. The humiliations, the parties, the failures of analysis – Pankaj Mishra on Salman Rushdie's memoir, Rushdie: 'a Cassandra for his own time'. They belong to an intellectually simpler time, when non-western societies, politically insignificant and little-known, could be judged solely by their success or failure in following the great example of the secular-humanist west; and writing literary fiction could seem enough to make one feel, as Tim Parks wrote in a review of Rushdie's novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet, "engaged on the right side of some global moral and political battle". My last image of Salman the free novelist, before his transformation into “Satan Rushdie” the wanted man, was of him being bundled into Alan Yentob's car after the service. We need his sequel. "Politics and literature," Salman Rushdie wrote in 1984, in what now seems an innocent time, "do mix, are inextricably mixed, and that … mixture has consequences." This is an audio summary of Joseph Anton: A Memoir by Salman Rushdie. 'Secular versus religious, the light versus the dark. Joseph Anton est merveilleux: autant une méditation sur la vie, la liberté et la recherche de la vérité qu'un mémoire captivant. Rushdie’s portrait of Marianne Wiggins is a masterpiece. “Shame is your Lear.” The unfortunate result is that Rushdie has become the Dreyfus of literature, a writer more written and talked about than read. Condemned to hell by a dying imam, he swiftly found himself already there – locked up with a wife about to leave him, who seemed to incarnate the horrors of the outside world. Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 12 février 2014. As he wrote in 1990, defending The Satanic Verses: "'Battle lines are being drawn in India today,' one of my characters remarks. Simple assertions of the principle of free speech did not persuade those Muslims who were aware of laws that protected Christians from blasphemy. It was a pure and unprejudiced question which Joseph Anton attempts to answer, as part of the author’s project to demonstrate to his son Zafar – nine years old at the time of the fatwa – the painful process of how a human being becomes a symbol. "Joseph Anton conveys a clear and shaming picture of his ordeal -- the soul-numbing humiliations of a subterranean existence, the scurrying from one safehouse to another, and the endless negotiations with security staff for a few slivers of ordinary life. Abonnez-vous à partir de . At times, Joseph Anton resembles a road movie – or motorcade – to the presidential palaces of those who have pledged their support, on the way stopping at Liège or Toronto to collect an honorary doctorate, or to take dinner with John Irving or Harold Pinter or, increasingly, with luminaries from the film world for which Rushdie still holds a child’s susceptibility. Who remembers Mrs Humphry Ward, once the most famous writer in the world, ranked by Tolstoy as England’s greatest and her name familiar to tribesmen in India for novels like Helbeck of Bannisdale? ", Five years later, his novel The Satanic Verses would be abruptly inserted into a series of ongoing domestic and international confrontations in the west and Muslim countries. As Tony Blair of all people put it: “You can’t muck around with something like this.”. Visit www.PoliticsBookMix.com for more politics book reviews! However, we do not permit client reviews based solely on a free consultation. "Joseph Anton conveys a clear and shaming picture of his ordeal -- the soul-numbing humiliations of a subterranean existence, the scurrying from one safehouse to another, and the endless negotiations with security staff for a few slivers of ordinary life. The name Joseph Anton is one the police forced him to invent and use for his own protection. The book is beautifully written. Joseph Anton, the memoir is complex. Joseph Anton is a bid to hose off the crap and retrieve his reputation and character. . Salman Rushdie landed himself in controversy with his novel The Satanic Verses. The reader is fully on Rushdie's side, and outraged when, in one of the book's few superbly rendered scenes, fear and confusion force him to re-embrace Islam before some Muslim scholars/busybodies. Review. Some Kashmiris in Srinagar, fighting a corrupt and brutal Indian rule, found in the book another pretext to ventilate their rage, and a differently motivated crowd of Pakistani protesters attacked the American Center in Islamabad, claiming the first of many lives consumed by a fast-spreading global wildfire. Buy sheet music books Bruckner, Joseph Anton. Outside the ring of steel formed by his close friends, many find it easy to misrepresent Rushdie as a once-great writer who has allowed the mercury of fame to spread into his prose, a “party monster” and celebrity victim who has immatured with age, like his fellow British-Indian literary knight V S Naipaul, and whose greatest thrill these days is to swap sunglasses with Bono on stage at Wembley. But this is such an extraordinary work that I feel compelled to share my opinion, even if clumsily. (It perhaps has an echo, too, of Kafka’s Joseph K., that other victim of interminable persecution.) In fact, it was Saddam Hussein who invaded Iran, and then assaulted it with chemical weapons, with the consent, even support, of western countries. Much more affecting is Rushdie’s grapple with his childhood. It stongly recommend everybody to read it. . . Joseph Anton est merveilleux: autant une méditation sur la vie, la liberté et la recherche de la vérité qu'un mémoire captivant. A peevish righteousness comes to pervade the memoir as Rushdie routinely and often repetitively censures those who criticised or disagreed with him. The following month South Africa proscribed the book. Journaliste pour la presse économique, elle a vécu en Inde et en Belgique. . HOW TO BE A WOMAN. Madonna, narrowly missed at Tina Brown's immortal launch party for Talk magazine, is finally encountered at Vanity Fair's Oscars bash in the company of Zadie Smith. I recently listened to Salman Rushdie’s memoir, entitled Joseph Anton (Amazon affiliate link), which is a general overview of his life with a particular focus on the time he spent hiding from a fatwa declared against him by Ayatollah Khomeini. Abonnez-vous à partir de . It may even scare you. It is time for us to choose.". As such, it was naturally opposed and superior to the "unarguable absolutes of religion" and incomprehensible to the Muslims protesting against his book – people prone to "mass popular irrationalism". In “Joseph Anton,” which Rushdie has composed very much like a novel, both these scenarios come to pass. At the same time, western states, after waging calamitously ill-conceived wars that killed and mutilated hundreds of thousands of Muslims, pursue a face-saving deal with people described by Rushdie as "fascist, terrorist gangsters" – the Taliban. Happily, the book narrates a truth far greater, far more relevant. Nous voudrions effectuer une description ici mais le site que vous consultez ne nous en laisse pas la possibilité. by Ellen Forney Nonfiction. by Salman Rushdie. an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book.”—de Volkskrant (The Netherlands) “One of the best memoirs you may ever read.”—DNA (India) “Extraordinary . Report. It is a worrisome account of a principled piece of literature pulled into an extremely unfortunate situation. Ève Charrin. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie: review Under the threat of death, Salman Rushdie has written the sentences of his life in his long-awaited memoir Joseph Anton, argues Nicholas Shakespeare. Joseph Anton is hardly a conventional memoir. In Britain, it became another pretext for rants about Muslim barbarism, and fresh assaults on the straw man of "multiculturalism". 8 years ago | 34 views. Also, outside Britain, Anton "was seen as likeable, funny, brave, talented and worthy of respect". "Islam is a cancer, period," according to the sinister California-based filmmaker whose calumnies about the Prophet provoke riots across the Muslim world. 1€ Infolettre - Le mot d'Esprit. “You don’t own the franchise on genius,” she would say. Nearly 70 per cent of Bolton's Muslim population turned up for Britain's first major demonstration against the book. Joseph Anton is a splendid book, the finest new memoir to cross my desk in many a year -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Funny, painfully moving and absolutely necessary to read -- Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph Joseph Anton is a book that makes you laugh. by Cheryl Strayed Nonfiction. JOSEPH ANTON … Joseph Anton conveys a clear and shaming picture of his ordeal – the soul-numbing humiliations of a subterranean existence, the scurrying from one safehouse to another, and the … LIFE AFTER DEATH. The icon of free speech today is the Wikilieaks source Bradley Manning, fully exposed in his degrading confinement to the malevolence of an omnipotent intelligence and military establishment. Sentenced to death by a turban in Qom, Rushdie has done his utmost to keep a drowsy world awake. If you use and like Free-scores.com, thank you to consider support donation. Review. Journaliste pour la presse économique, elle a vécu en Inde et en Belgique. . In 1989 the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared that Salman Rushdie’s novel “The Satanic Verses” was offensive to Islam and issued a fatwa against the author, sentencing him to death. According to him, "the restoration of religion to the sphere of the personal, its depoliticisation, is the nettle that all Muslim societies must grasp in order to become modern.". Praise for Joseph Anton “A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: ... Rushdie’s eye is a camera lens —firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Unflinchingly honest . Salman Rushdie : Joseph Anton, une autobiographie. Better you choose which side you are on.' Khomeini's unconscionable fatwa, though immediately condemned by most critics of The Satanic Verses, widened the already great chasm of perception and historical memory between white westerners and the Muslim inhabitants of former western empires. In Iran itself a mass movement drawing on Islamic notions of justice and morality has ranged itself against Khomeini's discredited heirs. "He knew, as surely as he knew anything, that the fanatical cancer spreading through Muslim communities would in the end explode into the wider world beyond Islam." Early in Joseph Anton Salman Rushdie contrasts the Christian poles of Guilt and Redemption with the Islamic ones of Honour and Shame, and indeed this memoir of a cultural Muslim is not short of examples of the latter. Durham, NC, is where Joseph Valdez Yu lives today. par. "Of course this is 'about Islam'," Rushdie quickly retorted in a New York Times op-ed to those who argued that 9/11 "isn't about Islam", or like Susan Sontag, a loyal friend and supporter, described the attacks as "a consequence of specific American alliances and actions", such as the support of Saudi Arabia and fundamentalists in Afghanistan. The Indian government rashly obliged, prohibiting the novel's importation (though copies were already in circulation). by Kurt Vonnegut Nonfiction. Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 15th, 2012. No one among Rushdie's early readers in Europe and America seems to have suspected that parts of the novel constituted, as Eliot Weinberger wrote in 1989, an "all-out parodic assault on the basic tenets of Islam". Proudly irreligious like him, from the age of 13 Rushdie had to fill his god-shaped hole in the alien culture of England, first at Rugby where he was wretched, then at Cambridge, which he loved, particularly for the Footlights, then in various London advertising agencies, after his itch to act remained unscratched, and then as the author of two mesmerising novels in which he resurrected his beloved Indian homeland – a homeland from which the fatwa promptly banished him. . A similar longing for self-affirmation fuels Rushdie's geopolitical analysis, where an obsession with the "poison" of "actually existing Islam" suppresses all nuance suggested by political and historical facts. Previously cities included Dallas TX and Broadview Heights OH. Search. Finaliste du prix Médicis étranger 2012 qui sera décerné la semaine prochaine, Joseph Anton, une autobiographie, de Salman Rushdie, est un des livres marquants de cette rentrée littéraire. Literary fame is the ficklest. For every text, a context." His memoir Joseph Anton — which touches briefly on his pre-fatwa years before he was whisked away by British cops and sheltered by a network of literary luminaries — derives its title from Rushdie’s fugitive alias, a combination of the first names of Conrad and Chekhov. How could that be thought offensive?" Since Egyptians and Tunisians have subsequently elected Islamic parties to power, Rushdie has now changed his mind. KURT VONNEGUT. Other names that Joseph uses includes Anton M Joseph, Joesph H Anton, Joe Anton, Jose Anton and Joe S Anton. He amusingly quotes the newly elected Playmate of the Year respectfully saying to him, at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles: “I’m sorry, sir, I haven’t read any of your books.”. Primarily a memoir about the almost decade long siege Salman Rushdie was under due to the Fatwa, it is also an eloquent treatise for free speech and its value to the world where it has increasingly come under attack. Rushdie claimed in the accompanying interview that the image out of which his book grew was of the Prophet "going to the mountain and not being able to tell the difference between the angel and the devil.". Start a free 30-day trial today and get your first audiobook free. It was on Valentine’s Day in 1989 that Salman Rushdie awakened to a phone call from a BBC reporter who asked him how it felt to be sentenced to a Fatwah by the Ayatollah Khomeini. “Joseph Anton is a splendid book, the finest new memoir to cross my desk in many a year. 1€ Infolettre - Le mot d'Esprit. In reality, there was little in common between Rushdie, an atheistic, Cambridge-educated upper-class intellectual from Bombay, and the devout guest-worker from Anatolia (representative of the mostly working-class Muslims of rural origins who had been imported to service Europe's post-war economies), or the Pakistani trade unionist chased out by the torturers of Zia ul-Haq, the CIA-backed radical Islamist who had spent most of the 1980s facilitating an anti-Soviet jihad in Afghanistan. Salman Rushdie at his VERY BEST. As with the film Innocence of Muslims last week, news of the novel's alleged insult to Islam travelled speedily to politically combustible regions. BEST NONFICTION OF 2012: MEMOIR: Nonfiction. PoliticsBookReviews. . Maybe growing up with Hindi films with God in special appearance, or a dream sequence did that to me. Joseph Anton will not automatically convert them. “Against ruthlessness, remembering was the only defence,” he writes. Review Posted Online: Sept. 30th, 2012. Joseph Anton was the alias he had to create for himself, combining the names of Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov, during his police protection years. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • The Seattle Times • The Economist • Kansas City Star • BookPage On February 14, 1989, Valentine’s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been “sentenced to death” by the Ayatollah Khomeini. Joseph Anton - a pseudonym conjured by the author joining first names of Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekov - tries to be different things at the same time and succeeds brilliantly. About Joseph Anton. 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