![]() Lytten is a Charles Dodgson-type who shares his scribblings with writers like Tolkien and Lewis at a version of the real-life Inklings meetings in the local pub. Rosie is friends with Professor Henry Lytten, who dabbles in creating the fantastical world of Anterwold. But Pears’s use of this old plot mechanism is conscious, as are the novel’s many other appropriations, including storylines and characters from the western literary canon. Rosie, a young girl in post-war Oxford, walks through a portal into another world: a familiar enough scenario in fantasy fiction from Lewis Carroll and CS Lewis all the way to Philip Pullman and beyond. In Arcadia, Pears conceives these laws and also asks questions about creation, existence, time and the power of the written word. ![]() What if Alice’s Wonderland was a science fiction creation rather than a fantastic one? By what previously undiscovered scientific laws would that be possible? ![]() The author of An Instance of the Fingerpost explores what happens when words create worlds. Tags: Charles Dodgson/ CS Lewis/ dystopian fiction/ Iain Pears/ Lewis Carroll/ Marcel Theroux/ Philip Pullman/ Tolkien ![]()
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