‘Racing cracks': Memory and Time in "Midnight's Children" of Salman Rushdie

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1, University of Kent, language: English, abstract: The ‘inexorable ticktock’: as soon as Saleem’s narration starts, the countdown is set off and will not come to an end until the final full stop of Midnight’s Children (MC 82). Throughout the story, Saleem, being a ‘child of ticktock’, is ...