My Homeland in the Imagination: An Homage to Salman Rushdie
What I found interesting and beautiful was that Kundera’s defence of Rushdie’s controversial novel wasn’t based on freedom of expression, instead, it was based on the art of the novel.
What I found interesting and beautiful was that Kundera’s defence of Rushdie’s controversial novel wasn’t based on freedom of expression, instead, it was based on the art of the novel.
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