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The Gorfs and anagrammatics: Rushdie’s early philosophical fiction
Although it can easily be taken as science fiction, considering the use of theories such as the multidimensional universe, Salman Rushdie‘s first novel, Grimus, in my opinion manages to elude this labeling, and should be still considered a magical realism novel, in which fantasy plays two major roles: symbol and allusion; instead of a independent [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Striptease – Roland Barthes
With Pascal Bruckner and Michel Houellebecq, the “new french philosophers,” as a permanent sticky note of their literary and philosophical works we find the problems of love, sex and human nature in the contemporary context of posthuman societies. Houellebecq states that beginning with the postwar sexual revolution with it’s may 1968 high peak, humanity suffered [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Library of Babel – Borges and the universe
Borges’s heritage, left through his most famous short fiction stories (like The book of Sand, Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius or The Library of Babel), leave upon us and our contemporaries a hard-to-carry weight on our shoulders. What Borges specifically stated is that fiction is endless, that it can exist even if there are very little [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
