Life Before Man - Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

for joy, since it meant I could gobble up a few more pages of this deliciously cynical book. Few people can fail to have heard of Margaret Atwood, the woman has a hoard of prizes and prize nominations under her belt, not to mention a long list of critically acclaimed novels. This, the latest work of fiction to flow from her pen, earned her yet another Booker nomination for 2003. I have to say though initially I didn't rush to pick this up. I went through an Atwood phase as a teenager, read her back catalogue, and then didn't really succumb to any of the new offerings. But despite this reluctance, and the over sized nature of the tome itself, I did nose through ...

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

for joy, since it meant I could gobble up a few more pages of this deliciously cynical book. Few people can fail to have heard of Margaret Atwood, the woman has a hoard of prizes and prize nominations under her belt, not to mention a long list of critically acclaimed novels. This, the latest work of fiction to flow from her pen, earned her yet another Booker nomination for 2003. I have to say though initially I didn't rush to pick this up. I went through an Atwood phase as a teenager, read her back catalogue, and then didn't really succumb to any of the new offerings. But despite this reluctance, and the over sized nature of the tome itself, I did nose through ...

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

remains the most socially acceptable branch on the family tree of science fiction, embracing such respectably literary figures as Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and, of course, Margaret Atwood, who with her 1986 novel The Handmaid's Tale became its foremost contemporary practitioner. The Cassandraist novel is not a prediction of the future, but a nightmare of the present. Like the Bible's book of Revelation, novels like Brave New World and 1984 are vaticinia ex eventu: history disguised as prophecy. When John of Patmos composed Revelation, Caesar Nero reigned and threw Christians to the lions. John's apocalypse is not simply a ...

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

remains the most socially acceptable branch on the family tree of science fiction, embracing such respectably literary figures as Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and, of course, Margaret Atwood, who with her 1986 novel The Handmaid's Tale became its foremost contemporary practitioner. The Cassandraist novel is not a prediction of the future, but a nightmare of the present. Like the Bible's book of Revelation, novels like Brave New World and 1984 are vaticinia ex eventu: history disguised as prophecy. When John of Patmos composed Revelation, Caesar Nero reigned and threw Christians to the lions. John's apocalypse is not simply a ...

Surfacing - Margaret Atwood

fooled, and that is our unconscious. The truth is bound to be set free, even in our dreams. We can fool our consciuos part, but, our unconscious - never. Margaret Atwood`s book is about the gradual revelation of the secret cause of the damage, and the heroine`s struggling to recover her sanity. There are two worlds juxtaposed in the novel - one that is aware of it being sick and trying to recover(the nameless heroine), and the other - existing "on the surface" (David and Anna) - the world of superficiality, in which the only transformation that can be made is by using make-up, that is, there is no real transformation. In the first world - there is an ...

Surfacing - Margaret Atwood

fooled, and that is our unconscious. The truth is bound to be set free, even in our dreams. We can fool our consciuos part, but, our unconscious - never. Margaret Atwood`s book is about the gradual revelation of the secret cause of the damage, and the heroine`s struggling to recover her sanity. There are two worlds juxtaposed in the novel - one that is aware of it being sick and trying to recover(the nameless heroine), and the other - existing "on the surface" (David and Anna) - the world of superficiality, in which the only transformation that can be made is by using make-up, that is, there is no real transformation. In the first world - there is an ...