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Goodbye Crude World: The Aesthetics of Environmental Catastrophe in Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things and Edward Burtynsky's Oil Photographs

Goodbye Crude World: The Aesthetics of Environmental Catastrophe in Michel Faber's The Book... Sofia ahlberg Goodbye Crude World The Aesthetics of Environmental Catastrophe in Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things and Edward Burtynsky’s Oil Photographs For Halloween in 2015, e Th Guardian published a piece on the fears of a range of authors including novelist Michel Faber. Faber recalled the sense of alarm he felt as a child while viewing a Christian inspirational film. It was set in a circus in which a Jesus- like clown takes on another’s suffering as a magician saws his female assis- tant in half. Faber was frightened, he says, because as a nine- y ear old he was unable to read the film allegorically as a parable of Christ’s passion redeeming humanity. He saw only the violence done to the woman fully felt by C as- hr clo ist- wn, whose face contorted with agonising pain during the performance. To those familiar with Faber’s work, and perhaps especially his recent, and by his own account final, novel e Th Book of Strange New Things (2014), fear and apprehension are to be expected. Indeed, a sense of impending doom pervades this most recent novel until it be- comes the terrifying actuality of complete global breakdown. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Goodbye Crude World: The Aesthetics of Environmental Catastrophe in Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things and Edward Burtynsky's Oil Photographs

Ahlberg, Sofia
The Comparatist , Volume 41 – Nov 1, 2017
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Sofia ahlberg Goodbye Crude World The Aesthetics of Environmental Catastrophe in Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things and Edward Burtynsky’s Oil Photographs For Halloween in 2015, e Th Guardian published a piece on the fears of a range of authors including novelist Michel Faber. Faber recalled the sense of alarm he felt as a child while viewing a Christian inspirational film. It was set in a circus in which a Jesus- like clown takes on another’s suffering as a magician saws his female assis- tant in half. Faber was frightened, he says, because as a nine- y ear old he was unable to read the film allegorically as a parable of Christ’s passion redeeming humanity. He saw only the violence done to the woman fully felt by C as- hr clo ist- wn, whose face contorted with agonising pain during the performance. To those familiar with Faber’s work, and perhaps especially his recent, and by his own account final, novel e Th Book of Strange New Things (2014), fear and apprehension are to be expected. Indeed, a sense of impending doom pervades this most recent novel until it be- comes the terrifying actuality of complete global breakdown.

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Published: Nov 1, 2017

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