Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991Granta Books, 1991 - 432 pages Like George Orwell or Bruce Chatwin, Salman Rushdie observes and illuminates a stunning range of cultural, political, and intellectual issues crucial to our time. Imaginery Homelands is an important record of Rushdie's intellectual and personal odyssey, and the 75 essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects. |
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... Hindi on the literatures of other Indian languages , particularly other North Indian languages . I recently met the distinguished Gujarati novelist , Suresh Joshi . He told me that he could write in Hindi but felt obliged to write in ...
... Hindi on the literatures of other Indian languages , particularly other North Indian languages . I recently met the distinguished Gujarati novelist , Suresh Joshi . He told me that he could write in Hindi but felt obliged to write in ...
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... Hindi sentences which appear in Soldiers Three ( and these are the only complete Hindi sentences to be found in the whole of Kipling's œuvre ) , ten are imperative sentences ; and nine of these are orders from English masters to their ...
... Hindi sentences which appear in Soldiers Three ( and these are the only complete Hindi sentences to be found in the whole of Kipling's œuvre ) , ten are imperative sentences ; and nine of these are orders from English masters to their ...
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... Hindi with , of all things , Latin . The Anglo - Indian word poggle , a madman , comes from the Hindi pagal , and so we're offered the following ' macaronic adage which we fear the non - Indian will fail to appreciate : pagal et pecunia ...
... Hindi with , of all things , Latin . The Anglo - Indian word poggle , a madman , comes from the Hindi pagal , and so we're offered the following ' macaronic adage which we fear the non - Indian will fail to appreciate : pagal et pecunia ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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