The writer Salman Rushdie has reappeared publicly several months after the brutal attack that he suffered last August, when a man stabbed him several times while he was giving a presentation in New York.
As a consequence of the attack, the author of ‘satanic verses‘, aged 75, has gone blind in his right eye, has difficulty writing and sometimes has “terrifying” nightmaresas he himself has recounted to ‘The New Yorker‘.
“I’ve been better. But considering what happened, I’m not so bad,” Rushdie has indicated to the aforementioned publication, to which he has reported that he has sensitivity in his thumb and index finger and that he does hand exercises in an effort to return write.
However, since the attack, the writer who spent years under death threats for the aforementioned novel – published in 1998 and considered blasphemous by the Iranian authorities, who issued a decree calling for his death – has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. “I sit down to write and nothing happens. I write, but it’s a combination of emptiness and garbage, things that I write and delete the next day,” says Rushdie, who has never had a block like this despite decades of threats.
About they nightmaresexplains that they have been decreasing over time and have not exactly dealt with the attack, although they have been “terrifying“, a trance that has not always been easy for him, as he has confessed.
On the other hand, the author has reflected on how sales of ‘The Satanic Verses’ skyrocketed after the stabbing. “Now that I almost died, everyone loves me“, he ironized. “That was my mistake, at that time. I not only lived but tried to live well. bad mistake. To receive 15 stab wounds, much better,” she added during the interview.
Rushdie’s attacker, Hadi Matar, pleaded not guilty of assault and attempted murder charges. The writer has stated that he is “an idiot”, although he claims not to feel anger. “I have tried very hard during these years to avoid recriminations and bitterness (…) One of the ways in which I have dealt with all this is to look forward and not back. What happens tomorrow is more important than what It happened yesterday,” he asserted.
Source: Lasexta
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