Grimus

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That which is complete is also dead” (225): the iconoclastic character of Rushdie’s first novel challenges the notion that literary or cultural paradigms should be viewed as immune from change and keep an immutable form. As is typical of Rushdie the divisions of characteristics distinguishing the polarities of this pair are traumatised and blurred as these characters are structurally and literally paired, blended and unified within the text. It can be seen as growing out of and extending the techniques and the literary traditions identified with Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, or Sir Thomas More's Utopia, in that its journey traverses both outer and inner dimensions, exploring both cultural ideologies and the ambivalent effects that they have on one's psychological being.

Rushdie has argued that "one of the things that have happened in the 20th century is a colossal fragmentation reality".Besides, the town of K is strongly reminiscent of Kafka’s work; this link continues to enrich the narrative even after the reader has been told about Attar’s Qâf. Do you deny that by choosing a man similar in appearance to myself I estimated exactly the effect of such a man on Virgil and on the town K?

Left to shift for himself, he tends to wallow and drift and take the path of least resistance until forced to do otherwise.Grimus overlooks the selflessness that lies at the heart of Sufi idealism; his hubris and megalomania transpire through the religious undertones permeating his words when he asks Flapping Eagle: “ Which of your Lord’s blessings would you deny?