Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991Penguin Publishing Group, 1992 - 439 pages “Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation means no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushdie’s masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and insight and passion. How literature of the highest order can serve the interests of our common humanity is freshly illustrated here: a defence of his past, a promise for the future, and a surrender to nobody or nothing whatever except his own all-powerful imagination.”-Michael Foot, Observer Salman Rushdie’s Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one writer’s intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects –the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie’s contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. For this paperback edition, the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa. |
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... Grass has taken the story of a group of writers who set about the task of seeing sharply , but with a sense of humor , and projected it three hundred years backwards in time ; which of course , Grass being Grass , enables him to tell ...
... Grass has taken the story of a group of writers who set about the task of seeing sharply , but with a sense of humor , and projected it three hundred years backwards in time ; which of course , Grass being Grass , enables him to tell ...
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... Grass is a migrant from his past , and now I am no longer talking about Danzig . He grew up , as he has said , in a house and a milieu in which the Nazi view of the world was treated quite simply as objective reality . Only when the ...
... Grass is a migrant from his past , and now I am no longer talking about Danzig . He grew up , as he has said , in a house and a milieu in which the Nazi view of the world was treated quite simply as objective reality . Only when the ...
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... Grass looks at Czechoslovakia through the writing of Kafka , or contemporary Japanese urban sprawl through the images of Alfred Döblin , he helps us see more , and more clearly . A writer who understands the artificial nature of reality ...
... Grass looks at Czechoslovakia through the writing of Kafka , or contemporary Japanese urban sprawl through the images of Alfred Döblin , he helps us see more , and more clearly . A writer who understands the artificial nature of reality ...
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