Rachel Thorpe Posted: 28 March 2012
Keywords: Christianity & Religion,
Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive
today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural move away from
metanarrative and towards fragmented notions of truth. She celebrates this
new intellectual trend, whilst also revealing the damage done by its more
confused, frustrated and narcissistic elements. This paper will argue that
Atwood's 'speculative fiction' in particular uncovers our deep human need
for stable knowledge, language and sense of self. Furthermore, her novels
point to society's insatiable longing for the God that it has turned away from,
showing all substitutes to be inadequate and dangerous.
I'm just halfway trgouhh The Blind Assassin, although I've had this forever because I tend to hoard books even if I have so little time to read. I'm loving it so far and I can see now why it's considered to be one of the best novels of all time. But maybe that's also because I tend to like literary fiction. But, you know what, after watching Buffy, I suddenly had this intense urge to go into science fiction/fantasy and so I bought the Le Guin. I actually haven't started that one; after watching the movie The Jane Austen Book Club (which mentioned The Left Hand of Darkness), I made a mental note that I'll start with Le Guin.
Angelo 26 August 2012