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SALMAN Rushdie has revealed he was so impressed by reading Ulysses in university that it nearly put him off his dream of being a writer.
The famous author is recovering after being attacked on stage in the middle of August as he was about to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state on August 12.
But in an interview recorded in a new feature-length BBC documentary on James Joyce’s seminal work before the attack, the author spoke of the influence of the Irish writer on him as a young student.
“When I first read Ulysses when I was at university, and thinking about, dreaming about being a writer, and the book is so immense in so many ways, it was actually quite off-putting to my dream of being writer, because I thought I can’t do that”, he said.
Fatwa
He added: “And plus he’s done everything. So what else is there left to do?”
Rushdie went on to become one of the most celebrated writers of his generation.
He has been under a fatwa calling for his death since 1989 when the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued it in response to the Indian-born author’s controversial novel The Satanic Verses.
The BBC Two documentary, James Joyce’s Ulysses, is a new feature-length documentary to mark the novel’s 100th anniversary.
Even though Joyce lived most of his life in exile, Rushdie observes in the documentary how Joyce always carried his native city close to his heart.