Entangled Temporalities of Multiverse Narrative
Life’s Lottery by Kim Newman
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 21390009 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Grzegorz Maziarczyk (0000-0002-6859-1527, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2022 |
| Volumen | 70 |
| Número | 11 |
| Páginas | 67-80 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2022-12-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Roczniki Humanistyczne (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0035-7707 • E-ISSN: 2544-5200 |
| Editorial | Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL (PUBLISHER • PL) |
| DOI | 10.18290/rh227011.5 |
| OpenAlex | W4313417265 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 4 |
Drawing on recent developments in unnatural narratology, this paper reads entangled temporalities of Kim Newman’s gamebook novel Life’s Lottery in relation to David Deutsch’s quantum theory of the multiverse. The forking narrative structure of the novel, which allows the reader to influence how a particular storyline will develop by choosing from a set of predetermined options, subverts such commonly assumed characteristics of time as unidirectionality and immutability, and undermines classical narratological models of temporal relations between story and discourse. In Life’s Lottery time constantly branches into contradictory timelines, which not only run in parallel but also crisscross one another and loop upon themselves, thus allowing transition between universes and times. Far from a mere exercise in narrative interactivity, a complex multiverse thus created can be construed as a paradoxically verisimilar representation of life’s contingency
Contingency · Epistemology · Immutability · Interactivity · Linguistics · Lottery · Multimedia · Narrative · Narratology · Politics · Representation (politics) · Temporalities · Timeline · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · History · Law · Mathematics · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy
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| Altamente citado | No |