The episodicity of this method, as reflected in the Faulknerian multiple first-person narrative structure (though some date this technique back to the Gospels of the New Testament), is both necessitated by the novel’s dealings with non-linearly structured time, as well as its efforts to create discrete and recognizable characters. Mandel probes the apocalypse not as a source of mass panic but as a series of breakdowns in individual lives. Weaving together contemporary and historical tragedies of the COVID-19 pandemic, World War I, and futuristic prognosis of potential technological failure, exemplified as the “file corruption” in the now parseable timeline (Part 6, Chapter 3). John Mandel takes the reader on a poignant journey in an exploration of the simulation hypothesis and prospects of time traveling in her latest novel, Sea of Tranquility. $25 (Hardcover) Between the 1 and the 0: Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St.John MandelĮmily St. John Mandel / Penguin Random House, April 2022 –
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |