In Salman Rushdie’s newborn novel, “The Enchantress of Florence,” the displeased Mughal emperor Akbar the Great agrees to permit a occult metropolis adventurer, Mogor dell’Amore, closing a tale. But as the troublesome Mogor prepares to continue, Akbar says with a contact of venom: “A anathemize on every storytellers. And a pox on your children, too.”

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