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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... reality between , for example , the nations of the North and of the South . What President Reagan says is happening in Central America differs so radically from , say , the Sandinista version , that there is almost no common ground . It ...
... reality between , for example , the nations of the North and of the South . What President Reagan says is happening in Central America differs so radically from , say , the Sandinista version , that there is almost no common ground . It ...
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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 and as a metaphor is at the heart of all my work . ' The modern city , ' says a character in The Satanic Verses , ' is the locus classicus of incompatible realities . ' Well , that turned out to be true . ' As long as they pass ...
... reality and as a metaphor is at the heart of all my work . ' The modern city , ' says a character in The Satanic Verses , ' is the locus classicus of incompatible realities . ' Well , that turned out to be true . ' As long as they pass ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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