The Moor's Last Sigh | Characters
One of the signature features of Rushdie's exuberant approach to characterization is his choice of names. At the beginning of his career in 1983, two years after the publication of the ground-breaking Midnight's Children, Rushdie explained his interest by saying, "It is impossible to overestimate the importance of names. I think they affect us much, much more profoundly than we think . . . naming has always been understood as being absolutely crucial to perception. So that's why I'm very interested in naming and I take enormous amounts of care about naming." This total absorption...
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