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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... tells us that ' precisely because , in one sense , he is passive to experience , Miller is able to get nearer to the ordinary man than is possible to more purposive writers . For the ordinary man is also passive . ' Characterizing the ...
... tells us that ' precisely because , in one sense , he is passive to experience , Miller is able to get nearer to the ordinary man than is possible to more purposive writers . For the ordinary man is also passive . ' Characterizing the ...
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... tells You , were bound between the wrong covers . What You started ( and now want to finish ) was Outside the town of Malbork by one Tazio Bazakbal . You , and Your new friend Ludmilla , who has had the same problem with her copy of the ...
... tells You , were bound between the wrong covers . What You started ( and now want to finish ) was Outside the town of Malbork by one Tazio Bazakbal . You , and Your new friend Ludmilla , who has had the same problem with her copy of the ...
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... tells us there are no rules . It hands down no commandments . We have to make up our own rules as best we can , make them up as we go along . And it tells us there are no answers ; or , rather , it tells us that answers are easier to ...
... tells us there are no rules . It hands down no commandments . We have to make up our own rules as best we can , make them up as we go along . And it tells us there are no answers ; or , rather , it tells us that answers are easier to ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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