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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... . It is by now obvious , I hope , that Saleem Sinai is an unreliable narrator , and that Midnight's Children is far from being an authoritative guide to the history of post- 22 'ERRATA': OR, UNRELIABLE NARRATION IN MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN.
... . It is by now obvious , I hope , that Saleem Sinai is an unreliable narrator , and that Midnight's Children is far from being an authoritative guide to the history of post- 22 'ERRATA': OR, UNRELIABLE NARRATION IN MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN.
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... Midnight's Children , in which not just one child , but one thousand and one children born in the midnight hour of freedom , the first hour of 15 August 1947 , were comically and tragically connected to the birth of a nation . ( I ...
... Midnight's Children , in which not just one child , but one thousand and one children born in the midnight hour of freedom , the first hour of 15 August 1947 , were comically and tragically connected to the birth of a nation . ( I ...
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... young Hindu woman said to me , ' one's religion is worn on one's sleeve . ' She was corrected by a Sikh friend . ' It is worn , ' he said , ' in a scabbard at the hip . ' I remember that when Midnight's Children was first published was ...
... young Hindu woman said to me , ' one's religion is worn on one's sleeve . ' She was corrected by a Sikh friend . ' It is worn , ' he said , ' in a scabbard at the hip . ' I remember that when Midnight's Children was first published was ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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