• The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

    Salman Rushdie: The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
    Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)