The Golden House: Salman Rushdie

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All the references myth were telegraphed as loudly as a classic Russian novel, the basic themes as loud as Bollywood musical, the pathos and the tragedy as distinctly American as a Mafia film. Because of their underground origin, these works were referred to as grotteschi, ("belonging to caves") and their strangeness changed the meaning of the word. The queen's gambit involves putting a pawn on the fourth rank during the opening, and has nothing to do with sacrificing the queen as a piece.

Maybe I am a smart camera. I record, but I’m not exactly passive. I think, I alter. Possibly I even invent. To be an imaginer, after all is very different from being a literalist.

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The Goldens all told stories about themselves, stories in which essential information about origins was either omitted or falsified. I listened to them not as 'true' but as indications of character. This is our world right now ---animated, theatrical- nutty - scary - confusing - with many people most comfortable isolating in their homes---while others are flamboyant outlandish socially active in the arts - sports -politics- and community. Love, fear, anger, hate... we live with it all. It's a sad beautiful world! Yet out of loyalty to his father's wishes he managed to find a way. He trained himself in locutions of avoidance, "I will not answer that question", or "maybe you should ask someone else". At age 42.... there were parts of Petya that would always remain a child. I was fascinated with Petya.....

The Domus Aurea ( Latin, "Golden House") was a vast landscaped complex built by the Emperor Nero largely on the Oppian Hill in the heart of ancient Rome after the great fire in 64 AD had destroyed a large part of the city. [1] Rushdie’s observations from our past political election are quite accurate, if perhaps coloured by his personal vision. His many thoughts, regarding this man who would become President, with his “colored hair” and bearing, leaving no doubt of his opinions on this topic. Unruly but exuberant… Much of the success of The Golden House, in fact, lies in its humour and in the vigour of its storytelling… There is a glowing energy to the prose that makes this Rushdie’s most enjoyable, mischievous and American of novels. Arifa Akbar, Financial Times I ended with 'sitting'...... sitting in a chair for 20 minutes- alone - quiet .... eyes watering..... just 'thinking'. Secret 'Room of the Sphinx' discovered 2,000 years later in Nero's Golden Palace". The Japan Times Online. 2019-05-11. ISSN 0447-5763 . Retrieved 2019-05-14.

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Nero Golden, a mysterious tycoon with a sketchy past, voluntarily exiles his family from Bombay/Mumbai and moves to a voluminous mansion in affluent Manhattan. Nero has aged like a fine wine; he’s as perspicacious as he is formidable and speaks several languages. Two decades after Rushdie transplanted himself to the US, one of the major pleasures of this novel is the way in which he considers the mores of the one per cent of the one per cent. Rushdie writes about the Goldens’ glittering, private world with innumerable perfect details, down to the art hanging on the walls… It will be a long four years, but fictional protests are unlikely to be as electric as this. Olivia Cole To supply his lake in the valley between the Palatine, Oppian, and Caelian, Nero diverted water from the Aqua Claudia by a specially built branch aqueduct known as the Arcus Neroniani. [35] This extended 2km west from the Claudia to the southern side of the Caelian Hill.

Salman Rushdie is a very brilliant man. A brilliant author. A man full of wit. A player of words. A great story teller. Perhaps even an elitist if one needed to use that word. Of course, the reader only 'knows' this Golden family through the eyes of outsider, film director, and neighbour, Rene, whose current project is to make a film telling their story. The question never far from the mind is how much of what we are being told is real? Is it the truth as the Golden's would understand it? Far from reflecting the impartial gaze of the camera, Rene's perceptions determine the narrative, especially as his associations with the family become closer and more complex. This is reflected in the structure of the writing, sometimes set up as a film script, with directions and asides from the narrator. It is not steady narrative, it jumps from the 'we' of the collective habitants of 'The Gardens' surrounding Golden House, to the 'I' of Rene, to internal monologues he could only be imagining, reported speech, and even interjections from mythical characters of folklore, like witch Baba Yaga. These layered stories, interspersed with frequent literary, cultural, and film quotation and reference, combine to form a labyrinth of connected lives and ideas, revealing how we use others' stories to illuminate our own, sometimes guiding or bolstering our identity, or even overwhelming who we are or who we might be. In the end, when it comes to people, truth and reality may be nothing more our own creations.a b c d e "The Domus Aurea: Nero's pleasure palace in Rome". www.througheternity.com . Retrieved 2019-05-14. When a young Roman inadvertently fell through a cleft in the Esquiline hillside at the end of the 15th century, he found himself in a strange cave or grotto filled with painted figures. [11] Soon the young artists of Rome were having themselves let down on boards knotted to ropes to see for themselves. [18] The Fourth Style frescoes that were uncovered then have faded now, but the effect of these freshly rediscovered grotesque [19] decorations ( Italian: grotteschi) was electrifying in the early Renaissance, which was just arriving in Rome. main character introduces the entire neighbourhood and the Golden family. Nothing but epic foreshadowing is happening. Andrea Carandini, Le case del potere nell'antica Roma, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010, ISBN 978-88-420-9422-7 p 251 A. Carandini, The houses of power in ancient Rome, Rome-Bari, Laterza, 2010, ISBN 978-88-420-9422-7 p288

Given by some sources as Fabullus; Smith (in his Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology) argues that Amulius is the more likely. I received a copy of this novel from the publisher, Random House, via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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The story is told through the eyes of a young, would-be film maker who thinks that the wealthy Golden family would make a great subject for a film. Nero Julius Golden comes from India to live in an old mansion in Greenwich Village with his three adult sons during the Obama administration. "[Nero] was majestic in all things, in his stiff-collared shirts, his cufflinks, his bespoke English shoes, his way of walking toward closed doors without slowing down, knowing they would open for him...and his often repeated dictum - one favored by absolute rulers from Caesar to Haile Selassie - that the only virtue worth caring about was loyalty." Each of the Goldens left his old identity behind and reinvented himself in America. Nero is later targeted by an expert Russian gold digger who has also reinvented herself and who comes prepared on their third date with a list of demands for cars, apartments and credit cards. The Goldens do very well in America until things begin to unravel for them (and for America).