Indeed, it is in response to the interview in “The New Yorker” that Rushdie posted a photo on Twitter. Journalist David Remnick was able to speak to the writer just before Christmas. “I’ve been in better shape. But given the circumstances, it’s not that bad. As you can see, the worst of the injuries have healed,” Rushdie told him.
The writer barely succeeds in typing, because he has no feeling in a number of fingers. “I write a little slower, but I’m getting there”, it sounds. Rushdie also talks about having nightmares, which made sleeping difficult at times. “But those seem to be declining.” Salman Rushdie uses the word post-traumatic stress disorder, a psychological shock that you can develop after a traumatic event.
“I had a really hard time writing. I sit down to write, but nothing happens. A combination of emptiness and clutter. Things I write I get rid of the next day. I’m not really out of the woods yet, actually. ” It’s only recently that he says he feels the “juices” coming back.
His new book “Victory city” (also in Dutch translation as “Victoriestad”) will be published on February 7, which was already ready before the attack in August last year. Will he ever write about the attack on his life? The idea initially annoyed him “because it was almost forced upon me by events”. However, it is apparently starting to mature a bit. Although the work would then be rather “microscopic”, in contrast to his other work.
