The fictions of literature declare themselves as fictions — they are lies which admit they are lies and are therefore able, at their best, to tell profound truths. The fictions of politics declare themselves as truths and are therefore, often, just lies.
In an interview with the Boston Globe, Salman Rushdie discusses his latest novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights; the nexus between fiction and politics; and surrealism.
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