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Bernard Werber’s Poetics of Ecological Reconstruction: “In Praise of Amnesia”?
Ist Teil von
L'Esprit créateur, 2017-04, Vol.57 (1), p.71-82
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Contemporary French science fiction, influenced by American writers of the genre, is essentially dystopic. The novelist Bernard Werber, although deeply influenced by American science-fiction, proposes “other” modes of thinking as alternatives for a new ecological imagination. This article considers the five principal strategies that he uses to write a utopian fiction focused on new ways of thinking: the insertion of non-fiction, such as encyclopaedic fragments, in his novels; the use of interspecies analogies; the insertion of ideological arguments into the narrative; a description of otherness that interactively engages readers; a multidimensional perception of time.