![]() ![]() There were kids in velvet cloaks who lived free lives". It was, I'm afraid, people in Hyde Park playing bongos with their hands there was also the keyboard on The Doors' "Light My Fire". London itself is associated by Karim to a sound. One could even say that his novels have a soundtrack. Pop music is an important theme in Kureishi's novels. This motif is reinforced throughout the novel. On the first page Karim introduces himself as follows: "My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred, almost". In The Buddha the move into (and later through) the city is like an odyssey or pilgrimage. Therefore, his expectations of the city are great. ![]() To Karim, London-even though it is geographically not far away from his home-seems like a completely different world. ![]() The suburbs are "a leaving place" from which Kureishi's characters must move away. The novel is highly episodic Kureishi uses juxtaposition and collage. ![]() Styleĭue to the orality in The Buddha, the historical events, and the many dialogues full of colloquialism, the reader gets the impression of realism. Hanif Kureishi's two novels The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album are about initiation, (black, Asian) British youth, pop culture, the condition of England, and London. ![]()
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