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جوزف أنطون : سيرة ذاتية
يتناول هذا الكتاب ترجمة ذاتية بقلم (سلمان رشدي) ويأتي عنوان الكتاب من الاسم المستعار الذي اختاره رشدي لنفسه عندما كان مضطرا إلى الاختفاء بعد صدور فتوى الإمام الخميني التي أهدرت دمه، ويروي فيه قصة سنوات طويلة قضاها رشدي بين أماكن إقامة سرية متعددة تحت حراسة مسلحة مقطوعا عن الناس وكيف أثر هذا على زواجاته. وهو عبارة عن رواية مكتوبة بصيغة الغائب يحكي فيها رشدي سيرة بطله جوزيف أنطون، وكان رشدي قد اختار هذا الاسم بدمج اسمي كاتبيه المفضلين هما \"جوزيف كونراد\" و\"أنطون تشيخوف\" ويتطرق إلى مقتل بعض المترجمين والناشرين الذين لهم علاقة برواية \"آيات شيطانية\" من ترجمة أو نشر. يقع الكتاب في حوالي (750) صفحة، بعد أن اختصر رشدي مئتي صفحة منها قبل نشرها.
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Possessing that skill, Mr. [John Kobal] has assembled a rich spread of material - new items for the Errol Flynn dossier and the Louella Parsons dossier, aged Russian temptresses in full spate, Mae West expanding (if that is the right word) on her psychic powers, James Stewart trying to get his tongue round one of the more awkward lines in ''The Philadelphia Story'' (''You've got hearth-fires banked down in you, Tracy, hearth-fires and holocausts''). There are good jokes and not such good jokes, reassuring stories and horror stories, everything from the finer points of film-making technique to the hazards of being perched on a pedestal if you were a chorus girl in a big Busby Berkeley number (''She was scared purple 'cause she was scared of heights''). A few stars stand out as particularly sympathetic. Eleanor Powell gives a sprightly account of what it was like to work with Fred Astaire -and what it was like keeping Louis B. Mayer at bay. Ann Sheridan reminisces amusingly about the days when she was saddled with the responsibilities of being ''The Oomph Girl'' (she was already wasting away with cancer when she spoke to Mr. Kobal, though you would never have guessed it). Joan Blondell recalls her husbands - Dick Powell giving her a gold cigarette case with ''Sweetheart, there must be happiness ahead'' written on it diamonds (''But written out like music, you know?''); Mike Todd asking her to let him have back her jewelry when his shows were in trouble (''Or so I thought. Fifteen years later he was married to Liz Taylor and I saw my big ring on her finger!'').
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