Review: Imaginary homelandsAvis de journaliste - Kirkus ReviewsLively, wide-ranging collection of 75 pieces written over the past ten years by the author of The Satanic Verses. Would this collection exist had The Satanic Verses not made the Ayatollah Khomeini's hit parade? Yes. Rushdie has the extra edge of an international mind that acknowledges two political and several literary homelands. His subjects here revolve around the politics of India and Pakistan, censorship, literature, movies, TV, the experience of Indian migrants to Britain, his thoughts on the Thatcher/Foot election, and on writers: Anita Desai, Kipling, V.S. Naipaul, Graham Greene, John le CarrÉ, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Raymond Carver, Saul Bellow, Philip Ruth, Thomas Pynchon, and so on. He comes down hard on the recent spate of British-Indian shows, finding Gandhi, A Passage to India, The Far Pavilions, and The Raj Quartet/The Jewel in the Crown to be guilty of the sins they attack: the Indians do not get equal time while British rule is glamorized; it is the British characters whose stories matter to the writers and filmmakers. He dismantles ""Inside the Whale,"" George Orwell's famous essay defending Henry Miller's political quietism, and attacks the same quietism in Orwell's 1984, to show that ""there is no whale. We live in a world without hiding places. . ."" He stands up for Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray against the Bombay film hacks. He praises Terry Gilliam's ""magnificent film of future totalitarianism,"" Brazil, which combines Franz Kafka with Frank Capra. But perhaps the most eye-opening and affecting piece here is a long talk between Rushdie and Edward Said about Zionism and the nature of being a stateless Palestinian, ""the victim of a victim."" Rushdie's probing, teasing, intelligent voice is in every sentence; every word he writes feels personal. You can't ask for more than that in an essay. Review: Imaginary homelandsAvis de journaliste - Kirkus ReviewsChild abuse, adultery, and murder permeate this potentially gripping but overwritten southern California crime story from the best-selling author of Small Sacrifices, The Stranger Beside Me, etc. David Brown was the consummate Eighties entrepreneur: a computer wizard with his own business, plenty of cash, and a home in Orange County's conservative enclave. He was also an oversexed hypochondriac and periodically suicidal Svengali who emotionally blackmailed his daughter into killing her stepmother so that he could marry his teen-age sister-in-law and then bask in the deceased's million-dollar insurance policy. And Brown also emerges as a pedophile puppeteer who got the sister-in-law to perform oral sex on him when she was 11 years old and who talked his daughter into overdosing on pills so that her subsequent murder conviction could be diluted with an insanity plea. The sordid yarn has two parts: the trial that sentenced Brown's daughter, and a zealous detective's follow-up investigation that finally brought the crime's true mastermind to justice. While covering this ""utterly fascinating study of psychopathy,"" Rule litters her paper trail with dozens of interviews with the killer, his accomplices, the victims, and the authorities. She provides a thoroughly researched and well-rounded picture of each character, with several narrative blind alleys and surprises that get even more demented when Brown schemes to murder his prosecution team and everyone else he thinks plotted against him. But Rule's talent as a documentarian ironically works against her. Instead of giving her shotgun story a shotgun style, she drags on with redundancies and semi-readable interview transcripts that could make readers yawn over otherwise stirring events. Second-drawer Rule, but shocking and juicy nonetheless. Commentaires des utilisateursReview: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991Avis d'utilisateur - Indiabookstore - Goodreads“The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men.” Salman Rushdie compares migration to translation- some ... Consulter l'avis complet Review: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991Avis d'utilisateur - Arun Divakar - GoodreadsFor the time being, I need to shelve this. The view points are excellent and the writing is wonderful but somehow I feel incapable of warming up to the ideas. It is not the time for this book....yet ! Consulter l'avis complet Review: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991Avis d'utilisateur - Shagun Gupta - GoodreadsThe book is a living demonstration of the power of the mind. How to think beyond what the world has to offer, how the world may persecute you yet you live. A most compelling collection of insights ... Consulter l'avis complet Review: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991Avis d'utilisateur - Jon - GoodreadsThis book was an inspiration to me. Consulter l'avis complet Review: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991Avis d'utilisateur - Ben - GoodreadsA few years ago, when doing research for an essay, I came across the title; I'm pretty sure an online partial-text of the titular essay gave me a useful quote, though for the life of me I can't find ... Consulter l'avis complet Review: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991Avis d'utilisateur - Laurent - GoodreadsA critical, at times poignant analyses about religion, Indian-Pakistani politics, multiculturality, the role of literature and the works of several great writers. definitively worth a read, even if you're only interested in some of those topics. Consulter l'avis complet Review: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991Avis d'utilisateur - James Goldberg - GoodreadsNice to get Rushdie's intensity without the filter of fiction. He's an engaging thinker and a great writer--this collection is a great place to go if you're not up to a novel at the moment, but want a little dose of Rushdie. Liked it way better than his short fiction. Consulter l'avis complet Review: Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991Avis d'utilisateur - Patrick McCoy - GoodreadsImaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie: this is an excellent collection of mostly short pieces about a variety of subjects. From politics to religion to literature ... Consulter l'avis complet | Avis des utilisateurs| 5 étoiles | | | 4 étoiles | | | 3 étoiles | | | 2 étoiles | | | 1 étoile | |
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