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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... exist only in dreams , being composed of elements which could not possibly be joined together in the real world . The dangers of unleashing such a phantom into the groves of literature are , it seems to me , manifold . As I mentioned ...
... exist only in dreams , being composed of elements which could not possibly be joined together in the real world . The dangers of unleashing such a phantom into the groves of literature are , it seems to me , manifold . As I mentioned ...
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... exist if you set up enough faculties , if you write enough books and appoint enough research students . It does not exist in the sense that writers do not write it , but that is of minor importance . So perhaps I should rephrase myself ...
... exist if you set up enough faculties , if you write enough books and appoint enough research students . It does not exist in the sense that writers do not write it , but that is of minor importance . So perhaps I should rephrase myself ...
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... exist . Without the freedom to challenge , even to satirize all orthodoxies , including religious orthodoxies , it ceases to exist . Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned , or art will die , and with it , a little of what ...
... exist . Without the freedom to challenge , even to satirize all orthodoxies , including religious orthodoxies , it ceases to exist . Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned , or art will die , and with it , a little of what ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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