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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... sort of man to commit such a crime . When pressed about this , he says : ' I've been driving trucks now for four and a half years , and treating them as if they were my own . ' ( He doesn't quite add ' children ' . ) ' So for me to half ...
... sort of man to commit such a crime . When pressed about this , he says : ' I've been driving trucks now for four and a half years , and treating them as if they were my own . ' ( He doesn't quite add ' children ' . ) ' So for me to half ...
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... sort of writers they have it in themselves to be . A book is a kind of passport . And my passports , the works that gave me the permits I needed , included The Film Sense by Sergei Eisenstein , the Crow poems of Ted Hughes , Borges's ...
... sort of writers they have it in themselves to be . A book is a kind of passport . And my passports , the works that gave me the permits I needed , included The Film Sense by Sergei Eisenstein , the Crow poems of Ted Hughes , Borges's ...
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... sort of year . Twelve months ago , the Guardian's esteemed columnist , Hugo Young , teetered on the edge of racism when he told all British Muslims that if they didn't like the way things were in Britain , they could always leave ( ' if ...
... sort of year . Twelve months ago , the Guardian's esteemed columnist , Hugo Young , teetered on the edge of racism when he told all British Muslims that if they didn't like the way things were in Britain , they could always leave ( ' if ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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