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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... portrait of the guerrilla ' general ' for whom , after the success of his revolution , his old friend , now the Prime Minister of the newly liberated nation , has less and less time . Ms Gordimer's portrait of Sinclair ' General Giant ...
... portrait of the guerrilla ' general ' for whom , after the success of his revolution , his old friend , now the Prime Minister of the newly liberated nation , has less and less time . Ms Gordimer's portrait of Sinclair ' General Giant ...
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... portrait of this shifting , uncertain , terrified world with his telexes home , setting up a tension between the rich , ambiguous truth of life in war- crazed Angola and the need of newspapers for facts . For most of the book , his ...
... portrait of this shifting , uncertain , terrified world with his telexes home , setting up a tension between the rich , ambiguous truth of life in war- crazed Angola and the need of newspapers for facts . For most of the book , his ...
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... portrait of the way we are . That is to say : the most secular of authors ought to be capable of presenting a sympathetic portrait of a devout believer . Or , to put it another way : I had never felt the need to totemize my lack of ...
... portrait of the way we are . That is to say : the most secular of authors ought to be capable of presenting a sympathetic portrait of a devout believer . Or , to put it another way : I had never felt the need to totemize my lack of ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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