Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991Granta Books, 1991 - 432 pages Rushdie at his most candid, impassioned, and incisive--an important and moving record of one writer's intellectual and personal odyssey. These 75 essays demonstrate Rushdie's range and prophetic vision, as he focuses on his fellow writers, on films, and on the mine-strewn ground of race, politics and religion. |
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... novelist is not obliged to write directly about contemporary history , but a novelist who simply disregards the major public events of the moment is generally either a footler or a plain idiot . From a mere account of the subject matter ...
... novelist is not obliged to write directly about contemporary history , but a novelist who simply disregards the major public events of the moment is generally either a footler or a plain idiot . From a mere account of the subject matter ...
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... novelist submits his story , and is immediately submerged in a flood of rejection slips . Desperately , he tries to make his narrative more convincing . Maggie May's political opponents are presented as hopelessly divided . The presence ...
... novelist submits his story , and is immediately submerged in a flood of rejection slips . Desperately , he tries to make his narrative more convincing . Maggie May's political opponents are presented as hopelessly divided . The presence ...
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... novelist , Mario Vargas Llosa , Pha has for many years played a significant part in his country's politics . In this respect he is like many writers of the South and unlike the great majority of his Northern colleagues . He may well ...
... novelist , Mario Vargas Llosa , Pha has for many years played a significant part in his country's politics . In this respect he is like many writers of the South and unlike the great majority of his Northern colleagues . He may well ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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