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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... fact upon which everybody agreed was that he , Rajiv , had been the only possible choice . He was repeatedly referred to as the ' heir - apparent ' . We were told that he was ' coming into his inheritance ' . The ' succession ' was ...
... fact upon which everybody agreed was that he , Rajiv , had been the only possible choice . He was repeatedly referred to as the ' heir - apparent ' . We were told that he was ' coming into his inheritance ' . The ' succession ' was ...
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... Facts is no more than his way of upping the ante . Facts are slippery creatures , as we know , and Rothian facts are likely to be more slippery than most . a The Facts is , in fact , addressed not to us , the readers , but to the ...
... Facts is no more than his way of upping the ante . Facts are slippery creatures , as we know , and Rothian facts are likely to be more slippery than most . a The Facts is , in fact , addressed not to us , the readers , but to the ...
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... fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside , and a part of , the community whose values have always been closest to my heart . I have in the past described the furore over The Satanic Verses as a family quarrel . Well ...
... fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside , and a part of , the community whose values have always been closest to my heart . I have in the past described the furore over The Satanic Verses as a family quarrel . Well ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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