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en-wikipedia-org-185		The Satanic Verses - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3414	358	68	The Satanic Verses is a reflection of the author's dilemmas." The work is an "albeit surreal, record of its own author's continuing identity crisis."[2] Ally said that the book reveals the author ultimately as "the victim of nineteenth-century British colonialism."[2] Rushdie himself spoke confirming this interpretation of his book, saying that it was not about Islam, "but about migration, metamorphosis, divided selves, love, death, London and Bombay."[2] He has also said "It's a novel which happened to contain a castigation of Western materialism. After the Satanic Verses controversy developed, some scholars familiar with the book and the whole of Rushdie's work, like M. Within the book "there are major parallel stories, alternating dream and reality sequences, tied together by the recurring names of the characters in each; this provides intertexts within each novel which comment on the other stories." The Satanic Verses also exhibits Rushdie's common practice of using allusions to invoke connotative links.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-185.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-185.txt