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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... adventure and adventurer is their capaciousness . Any idea that can encompass the Prodigal Son and Indiana Jones ... adventure as a metaphor of life itself , and not only of life : ' To die , ' Peter Pan muses , ' will be an awfully big ...
... adventure and adventurer is their capaciousness . Any idea that can encompass the Prodigal Son and Indiana Jones ... adventure as a metaphor of life itself , and not only of life : ' To die , ' Peter Pan muses , ' will be an awfully big ...
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... Adventure and politics are best kept far apart , rather like uranium and plutonium . On the whole , then , the Candide / Quixote model of adventure seems preferable to older versions . In our increasingly vicarious culture , the ...
... Adventure and politics are best kept far apart , rather like uranium and plutonium . On the whole , then , the Candide / Quixote model of adventure seems preferable to older versions . In our increasingly vicarious culture , the ...
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... Adventure may have much to do with the pushing back of frontiers , but few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind . Even in the case of travel - adventures , the best of all are those in which some inner journey ...
... Adventure may have much to do with the pushing back of frontiers , but few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind . Even in the case of travel - adventures , the best of all are those in which some inner journey ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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