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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... trying to excavate ruptures and work out how trajectories can colour fields , they let us hear so little of the much richer language of their subjects . When Home Secretary Hurd visits Handsworth , looking bemused , just after the riots ...
... trying to excavate ruptures and work out how trajectories can colour fields , they let us hear so little of the much richer language of their subjects . When Home Secretary Hurd visits Handsworth , looking bemused , just after the riots ...
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... trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction , ' he says sharply before demolishing one Stephen Pile . Other journos who get the treatment in these pages include Bernard Levin , Penelope Gilliatt , Nicholas ...
... trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction , ' he says sharply before demolishing one Stephen Pile . Other journos who get the treatment in these pages include Bernard Levin , Penelope Gilliatt , Nicholas ...
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... trying to get rid of a body in a plastic bag . You ( the real you this time ) will probably agree with You ( not the real ... ) and Ludmilla that this is the most gripping thing you've read yet . But this , too , breaks off ...
... trying to get rid of a body in a plastic bag . You ( the real you this time ) will probably agree with You ( not the real ... ) and Ludmilla that this is the most gripping thing you've read yet . But this , too , breaks off ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS 9 | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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