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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... never was such a creature as a united India . Nobody ever managed to rule the whole place , not the Mughals , not the British . And then , that midnight , the thing that had never existed was suddenly ' free ' . But what on earth was it ...
... never was such a creature as a united India . Nobody ever managed to rule the whole place , not the Mughals , not the British . And then , that midnight , the thing that had never existed was suddenly ' free ' . But what on earth was it ...
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... never looks best pleased at being squashed against a mugshot of Paul Johnson ' ) , is a book studded with gems . Here you will learn of Greene's addiction to practical jokes , to the formation of satirical societies and to New Statesman ...
... never looks best pleased at being squashed against a mugshot of Paul Johnson ' ) , is a book studded with gems . Here you will learn of Greene's addiction to practical jokes , to the formation of satirical societies and to New Statesman ...
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... never be closed down ; the images created there make up a movie that can never be destroyed . In this last decade of the millennium , as the forces of religion are renewed in strength and as the all - pervasive power of materialism ...
... never be closed down ; the images created there make up a movie that can never be destroyed . In this last decade of the millennium , as the forces of religion are renewed in strength and as the all - pervasive power of materialism ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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