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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... Naipaul has ever written . The painting shows a port , a sail , a tower , two figures . Naipaul makes one of the figures a traveller who arrives at a ' dangerous classical city ' . ' Gradually .. his feeling of adventure would give way ...
... Naipaul has ever written . The painting shows a port , a sail , a tower , two figures . Naipaul makes one of the figures a traveller who arrives at a ' dangerous classical city ' . ' Gradually .. his feeling of adventure would give way ...
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... Naipaul's is a formidable talent , the book is studded with good things : the surrealist humour ( wholly unintentional ) with which a young Malaysian fundamentalist explains to Naipaul the solemn differences , in Islam , between ...
... Naipaul's is a formidable talent , the book is studded with good things : the surrealist humour ( wholly unintentional ) with which a young Malaysian fundamentalist explains to Naipaul the solemn differences , in Islam , between ...
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... Naipaul's famous Olympian disgust , is no help . At one point , Naipaul tells his friend Shafi : ' I think that because you travelled to America with a fixed idea , you might have missed some things . ' The criticism holds good for ...
... Naipaul's famous Olympian disgust , is no help . At one point , Naipaul tells his friend Shafi : ' I think that because you travelled to America with a fixed idea , you might have missed some things . ' The criticism holds good for ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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