“Life Is a Terminal Illness”: The War against Time and Aging in David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks

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dc.creatorAlbert, Noémi
dc.date2020-06-28
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-11T07:07:39Z
dc.date.available2020-09-11T07:07:39Z
dc.descriptionDavid Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks (2014) centers on Holly Sykes, the main character whom the novel follows from her youth into old age, thus witnessing the major events of a lifetime through her. This recounting serves as the traditional plotline that is intertwined with a fantastic story of two warring organizations of quasiimmortals and a narrative of climate change that ultimately leads to “Endarkenment,” the environmental catastrophe that hits the globe in Holly’s lifetime. These three distinct stories converge on the novel’s protagonist, through whom the reader encounters questions about aging, time, and mortality. The war between two atemporal factions, the Horologists and the Anchorites in particular, sheds light on humankind’s aspirations for immortality and focuses on present society’s conceptualization of old age. The paper analyzes these three distinct but tightly connected issues for a complex view both on the aging process itself and on society’s reaction and relation to it, that is, ageism. Mitchell’s novel—fantastic and realistic at the same time—becomes an intricate statement about aging, one of the most pressing issues facing humankind. (NA)
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dc.identifierhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7385
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2437/294941
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherDebreceni Egyetemi Kiadó
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7385/6781
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2020 Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.sourceHungarian Journal of English and American Studies; Vol. 26 No. 1 (2020)
dc.source2732-0421
dc.source1218-7364
dc.subjectaging
dc.subjectbone clock
dc.subjectatemporals
dc.subjectApocalypse
dc.subjectfantasy
dc.subjectimmortality
dc.title“Life Is a Terminal Illness”: The War against Time and Aging in David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
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dc.typePeer-reviewed Article
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