![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By learning to survive and become leader of the pack, Buck taps into his in-born violence and “returns to nature.” It was banned in Yugoslavia and Italy in 1929 for being “too radical,” and burned in Nazi bonfires along with other London works in 1933. Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is a story about a domesticated dog named Buck who is forced to work under brutal conditions as an Alaskan sled dog during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush. Whether the historical backdrop is a World War or the Cold War, these five extraordinary novels threatened those in power for their ideological content, whether or not the authors intentionally wrote in such messages. Rushdie – whose allegedly “blasphemous” novel The Satanic Verses led to a fatwa calling for his death from Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran – said that authors often do not write with a political agenda in mind, but instead controversy is forced upon their literature by external powers.Īmerican books banned in other countries reflect the phenomenon that art often gains political or ideological meaning from context. A few months ago, Salman Rushdie visited my school to talk about politics and art. ![]()
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