Grimus (1975) is Salman Rushdie's first published novel. A very clever
book, it combines myth and allegory, unreality and satire, delicacy and
naturalism, logic and nonsense... Inscribed as Utopian science-fiction, it can
be considered a ludicrous and witty mental game, whose language is a
fireworks of puns, anagrams, acrostics, parodies and ambiguity. All these
elements are analysed in detail, together with some other formal devices
and the mental processes of its recreation.
