V.S. Naipaul & the Dream of Blood: Atavisms in Universal Civilization (Critical Essay) V.S. Naipaul & the Dream of Blood: Atavisms in Universal Civilization (Critical Essay)

V.S. Naipaul & the Dream of Blood: Atavisms in Universal Civilization (Critical Essay‪)‬

Modern Age 2009, Summer-Fall, 51, 3-4

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Beschreibung des Verlags

Revolution as blood and punishment, religion as blood and punishment: in [Mullah] Khalkhalli's mind the two ideas seemed to have become one. And in fact, the double idea, of blood, fitted revolutionary Iran. Bebzad, my interpreter ... had his own dream of blood. His hero was Stalin. Behzad said, "What he did in Russia we have to do in Iran. We too have to do a lot of killing. A lot.(1)

GENRE
Gewerbe und Technik
ERSCHIENEN
2009
22. Juni
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
27
Seiten
VERLAG
Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc.
GRÖSSE
207.8
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