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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... culture - which I had always thought of as a rich mixture of traditions - in exclusive , and excluding , Hindu terms . One distinguished novelist began his contribution by reciting a Sanskrit sloka . Then , instead of translating the ...
... culture - which I had always thought of as a rich mixture of traditions - in exclusive , and excluding , Hindu terms . One distinguished novelist began his contribution by reciting a Sanskrit sloka . Then , instead of translating the ...
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... culture for which he stands . The poet's very name , Nur , is ironic : the word means light , but it is a light grown very dim indeed . Once again , however , the central point being made is not allegorical . The beauty of In Custody is ...
... culture for which he stands . The poet's very name , Nur , is ironic : the word means light , but it is a light grown very dim indeed . Once again , however , the central point being made is not allegorical . The beauty of In Custody is ...
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... culture , Bombay above all , is full of fakery and gaudiness and superficiality and failed imaginations , it is also a culture of high vitality , linguistic verve , and a kind of metropolitan excitement that European cities have for the ...
... culture , Bombay above all , is full of fakery and gaudiness and superficiality and failed imaginations , it is also a culture of high vitality , linguistic verve , and a kind of metropolitan excitement that European cities have for the ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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