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November 10, 2005

Rushdie
Realism and the fabulous
Salman Rushdie read from his new novel, 'Shalimar the Clown,' on Monday (Nov. 7) at Cambridge's First Parish Church. Speaking of his preference for allegory and fable, Rushdie said that in our times, 'the realism of the 19th century novel is not workable. It seems like a fiction.' (Staff photo Jon Chase/Harvard News Office)
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