Auster’s Man in the Dark: Human Existence and Responsibility for Creating Possible Worlds
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Possible worlds, governed by known or unknown cosmic rules, if ever they existed, do ontologically exist in the realm of imaginary and relate to human potential imagine beyond what we recognize as reality. This cognitive potential, tinged with postmodernist narrative techniques, can create alternative histories through which contemplate possible scenarios reality that could have happened depending on whether certain events did not happen. As far Auster’s Man Dark (2008) is concerned, imagining worlds has found an outlet only happen existentially, but also terms quantum physics. one contributions fiction, presents us a portrait underlying currents world affairs how are interrelated very basic rules existential philosophy astrophysics.
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عنوان ژورنال: Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0210-6124', '1989-6840']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2022-44.2.07