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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... Human Rights , just forty years ago , really was . Even the most cursory study of the history of the twentieth century indicates that it's really very hard indeed to pin down what may or may not be a ' human ' or a ' civil ' right , and ...
... Human Rights , just forty years ago , really was . Even the most cursory study of the history of the twentieth century indicates that it's really very hard indeed to pin down what may or may not be a ' human ' or a ' civil ' right , and ...
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... human factor ' problem . His best book , Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , was a brilliantly plotted procedural thriller in which the secret world was shown not to be flat but composed of different dimensions . Here character was no longer ...
... human factor ' problem . His best book , Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , was a brilliantly plotted procedural thriller in which the secret world was shown not to be flat but composed of different dimensions . Here character was no longer ...
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... human history , the apostles of purity , those who have claimed to possess a total explanation , have wrought havoc among mere mixed - up human beings . Like many millions of people , I am a bastard child of history . Perhaps we all are ...
... human history , the apostles of purity , those who have claimed to possess a total explanation , have wrought havoc among mere mixed - up human beings . Like many millions of people , I am a bastard child of history . Perhaps we all are ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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