Efforts to modify the works of writers such as Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl are alarming, says the author of Satanic VersesSir Salman Rushdie has condemned attempts by publishers to rework the writings of authors such as Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming “in light of today’s attitudes”. The author of The Satanic Verses, who lost his vision in one eye during a knife attack by an Islamic extremist last summer, said that the move to rewrite Fleming’s James Bond novels to make them more politically correct was “almost comical”. Sponsored“I have to say it has been alarming to see publishers looking to bowdlerise the work of such people as Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming,” Rushdie said. “The idea that James Bond could be made politically correct is almost comical. Books have to come to us from their time

Source: The Times May 17, 2023 09:31 UTC