Down the Road to Eternity

作者:Farrant, M.A.C.

页数:320

出版时间:2009-9

价格:$ 22.54

isbn号码:9780889226159

Satiric and philosophical in approach, indelibly marked by wit, humor, irony, playfulness, a blend of parody and science fiction, irreverent analysis, and comic existentialism, these stories celebrate the literary imagination as an antidote to the stranglehold of popular media on the public's imagination. Yet as in all such dystopian social parodies, there resides behind each of these brief entertainments a stifled scream for help, a trapped yearning for awe and wonder in our estrangement, an arrested lust for meaning. Unsparing in her critique of the branded New Age syncretism our global culture has substituted for authentic human emotion and genuine belief, these hilariously off-side stories navigate Farrant's exploration of the relation of fiction to the evolving construction of reality in the media and information age.