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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... once took part in a conference on modern writing at New .College , Oxford . Various novelists , myself included , were talking earnestly of such matters as the need for new ways of describing the world . Then the playwright Howard ...
... once took part in a conference on modern writing at New .College , Oxford . Various novelists , myself included , were talking earnestly of such matters as the need for new ways of describing the world . Then the playwright Howard ...
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... once the faintly defensive note that has crept into these last few remarks . The Indian writer , looking back at India , does so through guilt - tinted spectacles . ( I am of course , once more , talking about myself . ) I am speaking ...
... once the faintly defensive note that has crept into these last few remarks . The Indian writer , looking back at India , does so through guilt - tinted spectacles . ( I am of course , once more , talking about myself . ) I am speaking ...
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... once again , and that blue dye takes a long time to wear off . Woadicea rides again . What an achievement is hers ! She has persuaded the nation that everything that goes wrong , from unemployment to the crime rate , is an Act of God or ...
... once again , and that blue dye takes a long time to wear off . Woadicea rides again . What an achievement is hers ! She has persuaded the nation that everything that goes wrong , from unemployment to the crime rate , is an Act of God or ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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