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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... truths . Simon the Hammerman was the child of an incestuous union , an outcast , a source of horror among his own Zulu ... truth . Its final section , when Rian Malan goes to sit at the feet of an old white woman living among Zulus in a ...
... truths . Simon the Hammerman was the child of an incestuous union , an outcast , a source of horror among his own Zulu ... truth . Its final section , when Rian Malan goes to sit at the feet of an old white woman living among Zulus in a ...
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... truth . But I would gladly kill a man who thinks he has found the truth . ' ( This is what we used to call a joke , before killing people for their ideas returned to the agenda . ) The elevation of the quest for the Grail over the Grail ...
... truth . But I would gladly kill a man who thinks he has found the truth . ' ( This is what we used to call a joke , before killing people for their ideas returned to the agenda . ) The elevation of the quest for the Grail over the Grail ...
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... truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values ; that those who were unlike the crowd were to ... truths about the novel form is that the greater the writer , the greater his or her exceptionality . The geniuses of ...
... truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values ; that those who were unlike the crowd were to ... truths about the novel form is that the greater the writer , the greater his or her exceptionality . The geniuses of ...
Table des matières
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
IMAGINARY HOMELANDS | 9 |
IN MIDNIGHTS CHILDREN | 22 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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