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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... called an Arab Tristram Shandy in the blurb , is a wonderful comic novel about the secret life of somebody called Said , The Ill - Fated Pessoptimist . A pessoptimist , as you can see , is a person with a problem about how he sees the ...
... called an Arab Tristram Shandy in the blurb , is a wonderful comic novel about the secret life of somebody called Said , The Ill - Fated Pessoptimist . A pessoptimist , as you can see , is a person with a problem about how he sees the ...
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... called an advance on that earlier volume . It's more like a continuation of the world he built there , an America without history , peopled by men and women of small ambition , small dreams , small disappointments . The town in this ...
... called an advance on that earlier volume . It's more like a continuation of the world he built there , an America without history , peopled by men and women of small ambition , small dreams , small disappointments . The town in this ...
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... called the novel ' a privileged arena ' . By this he does not mean that it is the kind of holy space which one must put off one's shoes to enter ; it is not an arena to revere ; it claims no special rights except the right to be the ...
... called the novel ' a privileged arena ' . By this he does not mean that it is the kind of holy space which one must put off one's shoes to enter ; it is not an arena to revere ; it claims no special rights except the right to be the ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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