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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... Calvino's first book for six years , an entirely fictional personage named You , the Reader , buys and settles down with a novel which he firmly believes to be the new Calvino . ' You prepare to recognize the ... Calvino , 254 ITALO CALVINO.
... Calvino's first book for six years , an entirely fictional personage named You , the Reader , buys and settles down with a novel which he firmly believes to be the new Calvino . ' You prepare to recognize the ... Calvino , 254 ITALO CALVINO.
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... Calvino with a marvellous metaphor for himself . This growing preoccupation with the Book as opposed to the World will come to its true fruition in If on a winter's night a traveller ... Calvino gives it all a richly 257 ITALO CALVINO.
... Calvino with a marvellous metaphor for himself . This growing preoccupation with the Book as opposed to the World will come to its true fruition in If on a winter's night a traveller ... Calvino gives it all a richly 257 ITALO CALVINO.
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... Calvino's descriptive prose . Gore Vidal has called this Calvino's ' most beautiful work ' , and so it is . Here the reader may discover Octavia , a city hung like a spider's web between two mountains : ' The life of Octavia's ...
... Calvino's descriptive prose . Gore Vidal has called this Calvino's ' most beautiful work ' , and so it is . Here the reader may discover Octavia , a city hung like a spider's web between two mountains : ' The life of Octavia's ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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