These provocative essays explore the links between literature, history and politics, through an examination of the work of Cervantes, Tolstoy, Proust, Musil, Roth, Platonov, Soltzhenitsyn, Grossman, Munif, Rushdie and others. Tariq Ali draws out common themes as well as polarities, and in each case locates the writer and his or her work in the appropriate political and historical context. The title essay is inspired by one of Proust’s lesser-known reflections: if Zionism seeks a b...
About the author
Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics-including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The C...
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 294 ● ISBN 9781789604856 ● File size 0.5 MB ● Publisher Verso ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2020 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8713846 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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