The Representational Impasse of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: The Pesthouse by Jim Crace
Jim Crace’s The Pesthouse (2007) provides the ideal springboard for a discussion about the apocalypse and representation because the event remains unspecified, a gap in the story, suggesting the presence of epistemological limits. The present article contends that this narrative choice depends on a...
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Milano University Press
2013-05-01
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| Series: | Altre Modernità |
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/2987 |