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2020/025: Station Eleven -- Emily St John Mandel
Thursday, March 26th, 2020 07:52 am2020/025: Station Eleven -- Emily St John Mandel
The premise of Station Eleven is simple, and horribly timely: a deadly and fast-acting strain of flu wipes out most of human civilisation. It's the novels's structure that makes it more than a narrative of disaster.
( minor spoilers )
...the difference was that they’d seen electricity, they’d seen everything, they’d watched a civilization collapse, and Shakespeare hadn’t. In Shakespeare’s time the wonders of technology were still ahead, not behind them, and far less had been lost. [loc. 288]
The premise of Station Eleven is simple, and horribly timely: a deadly and fast-acting strain of flu wipes out most of human civilisation. It's the novels's structure that makes it more than a narrative of disaster.
( minor spoilers )
