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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... imagining spirit ; so it turns out that we are being told something very strange about the world of the imagination— that it is , in fact , at war with the ' real ' world , the world in which things inevitably get worse and in which ...
... imagining spirit ; so it turns out that we are being told something very strange about the world of the imagination— that it is , in fact , at war with the ' real ' world , the world in which things inevitably get worse and in which ...
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... imagination , and Kapuściński possesses in abundance the gifts of the true imaginative writer . In his books on Haile Selassie and the Shah , and now in Another Day of Life , his descriptions - no , his responses - do what only art can ...
... imagination , and Kapuściński possesses in abundance the gifts of the true imaginative writer . In his books on Haile Selassie and the Shah , and now in Another Day of Life , his descriptions - no , his responses - do what only art can ...
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... imagination of Márquez himself is the memory of his grandmother . Many , more formal antecedents have been suggested for his art : he has himself admitted the influence of Faulkner , and the world of his fabulous Macondo is at least ...
... imagination of Márquez himself is the memory of his grandmother . Many , more formal antecedents have been suggested for his art : he has himself admitted the influence of Faulkner , and the world of his fabulous Macondo is at least ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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