Jim Crace, Quarantine, and the Dawkins Delusion.
Jim Crace's novel Quarantine purports to be a text of 'post-Dawkins scientific atheism'. It re-sets the mystical gospel story of the Temptation in the Wilderness into a materialist universe where only the laws of nature preside, and thus converges on a well-established fictional form, the naturalist...
| Publicado en: | Critical Survey Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 69 - 92 |
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Berghahn Books
2010
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