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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... death : death as an ever - present fact of life . Of the two central characters to whom we are introduced at the start , one , the mother , is a widow , while the other , the daughter , is the sole survivor of many children , who has ...
... death : death as an ever - present fact of life . Of the two central characters to whom we are introduced at the start , one , the mother , is a widow , while the other , the daughter , is the sole survivor of many children , who has ...
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... death into art , have a simple , declaratory honesty that makes them almost unbearable to read . This is the beginning of ' What the Doctor Said ' : He said it doesn't look good he said it looks bad in fact real bad he said I counted ...
... death into art , have a simple , declaratory honesty that makes them almost unbearable to read . This is the beginning of ' What the Doctor Said ' : He said it doesn't look good he said it looks bad in fact real bad he said I counted ...
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... death , still roams the forests of Northern California as a Thanatoid , a member of the undead , unable to find ... death - imagery in this novel , with its use of old Amerindian death - myths : are we being told that America , 1984 , is ...
... death , still roams the forests of Northern California as a Thanatoid , a member of the undead , unable to find ... death - imagery in this novel , with its use of old Amerindian death - myths : are we being told that America , 1984 , is ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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