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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... reality . ' The movement towards the cinema screen is a metaphor for the narrative's movement through time towards the present , and the book itself , as it nears contemporary events , quite deliberately loses deep perspective , becomes ...
... reality . ' The movement towards the cinema screen is a metaphor for the narrative's movement through time towards the present , and the book itself , as it nears contemporary events , quite deliberately loses deep perspective , becomes ...
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... reality . In an age in which it seems impossible to create happy endings ; in which we seem to make Dystopias the way earlier ages made Utopias ; in which we appear to have lost confidence in our ability to improve the world , Gilliam ...
... reality . In an age in which it seems impossible to create happy endings ; in which we seem to make Dystopias the way earlier ages made Utopias ; in which we appear to have lost confidence in our ability to improve the world , Gilliam ...
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... reality . Only when the Americans came at the war's end and the young Grass began to hear how things had really been in Germany did he understand that the lies and distortions of the Nazis were not the plain truth . What an experience ...
... reality . Only when the Americans came at the war's end and the young Grass began to hear how things had really been in Germany did he understand that the lies and distortions of the Nazis were not the plain truth . What an experience ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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