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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... never was such a creature as a united India . Nobody ever managed to rule the whole place , not the Mughals , not the British . And then , that midnight , the thing that had never existed was suddenly ' free ' . But what on earth was it ...
... never was such a creature as a united India . Nobody ever managed to rule the whole place , not the Mughals , not the British . And then , that midnight , the thing that had never existed was suddenly ' free ' . But what on earth was it ...
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... never named . ' That's what we're up against , folks , and what Mr Pynchon used to set against it in the old days was Entropy , seen as a slow , debauched , never - ending party , a perpetual coming- down , shapeless and meaningless and ...
... never named . ' That's what we're up against , folks , and what Mr Pynchon used to set against it in the old days was Entropy , seen as a slow , debauched , never - ending party , a perpetual coming- down , shapeless and meaningless and ...
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... never be closed down ; the images created there make up a movie that can never be destroyed . In this last decade of the millennium , as the forces of religion are renewed in strength and as the all - pervasive power of materialism ...
... never be closed down ; the images created there make up a movie that can never be destroyed . In this last decade of the millennium , as the forces of religion are renewed in strength and as the all - pervasive power of materialism ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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