Timelessness in a Reversed Narrative Act: The Quest for Eternity in Baxter's First Light

Journal Article

Sadiq, Ebtisam Ali . 1996

• نوع عمل المنشور: Literary Criticism
• الوسوم: Contemporary American Fiction
• المجلة \ الصحيفة: Occasional Papers [CDELT, Ain Sahms U, Egypt
• رقم العدد: 3
• رقم الإصدار السنوي: 22
• الصفحات: 23-36

مستخلص المنشور

This article attempts to explain a reversed narrative act in a postmodern novel, First Light, by a contemporary American writer, Charles Baxter.  The act suggests a secular quest of immortality. It is echoed in the novel by the characters’ perpetual involvement in acts of memory that revive their personal past and create a sense of temporal  permanence.