Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change by Roman Bartosch

Author:Roman Bartosch
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030333003
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

However, the seemingly head-on engagement with politics is surprising only if one overlooks that the voice uttering the opinions is an increasingly disembodied one, a nonperson. While in 1992, Coetzee could still criticise the ‘disembodied’ fiction of Beckett’s The Unnameable (23), in Diary of a Bad Year , JC’s reflections ‘on the afterlife’ (DoaBY 153–154) and the strict division of opinions and JC’s and Anya’s consciousnesses urge us to question whether we may be listening to a dead character who simply does not know he is dead, as in one of his dreams: ‘I had died but had not left the world yet. I was in the company of a woman, one of the living […]’ (157). JC had earlier reflected on his inability to still write novels; now he thinks of this frightening dream as an inspiration:An intriguing idea: to write a novel from the perspective of a man who has died […]. Some of the people in his world simply don’t see him (he is a ghost). Some are aware of him; but he gives off an air of superfluousness, his presence irritates them. (158)

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