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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... nation of India and I were born within eight weeks of one another . I came first . This gave rise to a family joke — that the departure of the British was occasioned by my arrival on the scene and the joke , in turn , became the germ of ...
... nation of India and I were born within eight weeks of one another . I came first . This gave rise to a family joke — that the departure of the British was occasioned by my arrival on the scene and the joke , in turn , became the germ of ...
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... nation that everything that goes wrong , from unemployment to the crime rate , is an Act of God or someone else's fault , that the forces of organized labour are actually the enemies of organized labour ; that we can only defend ...
... nation that everything that goes wrong , from unemployment to the crime rate , is an Act of God or someone else's fault , that the forces of organized labour are actually the enemies of organized labour ; that we can only defend ...
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... nation . ' This is important stuff for a novelist , because what we are being told is that the idea of sequence , of narrative , of society as a story , is essential to the creation of nations . But writers insist , if they're any good ...
... nation . ' This is important stuff for a novelist , because what we are being told is that the idea of sequence , of narrative , of society as a story , is essential to the creation of nations . But writers insist , if they're any good ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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