Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991Granta Books, 1991 - 432 pages Like George Orwell or Bruce Chatwin, Salman Rushdie observes and illuminates a stunning range of cultural, political, and intellectual issues crucial to our time. Imaginery Homelands is an important record of Rushdie's intellectual and personal odyssey, and the 75 essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. |
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... readers wanted it to be the history , even the guide- book , which it was never meant to be ; others resented it for its incompleteness , pointing out , among other things , that I had failed to mention the glories of Urdu poetry , or ...
... readers wanted it to be the history , even the guide- book , which it was never meant to be ; others resented it for its incompleteness , pointing out , among other things , that I had failed to mention the glories of Urdu poetry , or ...
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... reader of Italo Calvino will be taken further out of himself than most readers , he will also discover that the experience is not a flight from , but an enrichment of himself . No , the reason why Calvino is such an indispensable writer ...
... reader of Italo Calvino will be taken further out of himself than most readers , he will also discover that the experience is not a flight from , but an enrichment of himself . No , the reason why Calvino is such an indispensable writer ...
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... readers , doors in the head , doors whose existence they had not previously suspected . And then there are readers who dream of becoming writers ; they are searching for the strangest door of all , scheming up ways to travel through the ...
... readers , doors in the head , doors whose existence they had not previously suspected . And then there are readers who dream of becoming writers ; they are searching for the strangest door of all , scheming up ways to travel through the ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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