Midnight’s Children Essays

Midnight's Children

Though Salman RushdieÃÂÂs MidnightÃÂÂs Children if full of comic details and humorous anecdotes of Saleem SinaiÃÂÂs family history, the overall tone of the novel is in sharp contrast. Destruction and deception pervade much of the novel, and in the...

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Midnight's Children

In Atlas of the European Novel, Franco Moretti argues that “The novel functions as the symbolic form of the nation-state ...and it’s a form that not only does not conceal the nation’s internal divisions, but manages to turn them into a story.” He...