Présent rétrospectif et détour post-humain chez Clifford Simak et Michel Houellebecq
This article draws a comparison between City by Clifford Simak and The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq. Both novels demonstrate the same kind of narratological device: our time (1950-2005) is portrayed by a narrating voice from beyond humankind’s extinction. The paper interrogates bot...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Université Gustave Eiffel
2016-06-01
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| Series: | ReS Futurae |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/resf/803 |
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| Summary: | This article draws a comparison between City by Clifford Simak and The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq. Both novels demonstrate the same kind of narratological device: our time (1950-2005) is portrayed by a narrating voice from beyond humankind’s extinction. The paper interrogates both novelists’ depiction of future times from a posthumanist perspective and reaches the conclusion that Simak appears to hold more antihumanistic views than Houellebecq. |
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| ISSN: | 2264-6949 |