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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... truths . Simon the Hammerman was the child of an incestuous union , an outcast , a source of horror among his own Zulu ... truth . Its final section , when Rian Malan goes to sit at the feet of an old white woman living among Zulus in a ...
... truths . Simon the Hammerman was the child of an incestuous union , an outcast , a source of horror among his own Zulu ... truth . Its final section , when Rian Malan goes to sit at the feet of an old white woman living among Zulus in a ...
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... truth in them . The trouble is that it's a highly selective truth , a novelist's truth masquerading as objective reality . Take Iran : no hint in these pages that in the new Islam there is a good deal more than Khomeinism , or that the ...
... truth in them . The trouble is that it's a highly selective truth , a novelist's truth masquerading as objective reality . Take Iran : no hint in these pages that in the new Islam there is a good deal more than Khomeinism , or that the ...
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... truth . But I would gladly kill a man who thinks he has found the truth . ' ( This is what we used to call a joke , before killing people for their ideas returned to the agenda . ) The elevation of the quest for the Grail over the Grail ...
... truth . But I would gladly kill a man who thinks he has found the truth . ' ( This is what we used to call a joke , before killing people for their ideas returned to the agenda . ) The elevation of the quest for the Grail over the Grail ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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