Layers of Fiction: Aspects of Heterogeneity in Salman Rushdie'sMidnight's Children

Salman Rushdie is one of the most widely discussed ofcontemporary writers. However the main scope ofdiscussion is still not his art, but rather thenever-ending 'Rushdie affair' around The SatanicVerses. Under the shadow of these scandals heundoubtedly brought wonderful new inventions to theprose of the 20th/21st century. This book, therefore,intends to explore the heterogeneic literary featuresthat manifest in Midnight's Children, his mosthighly regarded novel. Main focus is on how he iswidening the boundaries of the genre by comprisingvarious kinds of novel types into one text.Furthermore the role of memory in storytelling isanalysed together with the parallel existence ofindividual and historical sense of time. Besides thedifferent layers of fiction, the compoundity ofSaleem, the protagonist's character and his method ofstorytelling is also considered in detail along withRushdie's unique language usage. This analysis shouldbe useful to people interested in Salman Rushdie?snovel writing technique and his character delineation.