Multidimensional Time-Space in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye and Viivi Luik’s The Seventh Spring of Peace
Multidimensional Time-Space in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye and Viivi Luik’s The Seventh Spring of Peace

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with two post-World War II formative novels — Cat’s Eye (1988) by Margaret Atwood, and The Seventh Spring of Peace (Seitsmes rahukevad) (1985) by a well-known Estonian poet and novelist, Viivi Luik. Both novels are autobiographical, telling the story of a young girl growing up in post-war Canada and Estonia, respectively. Relying on New Historicist grounds, I consider the discourse of the novels as having the status of both fiction and history. ... I will focus on the depiction of history through multidimensional time-space (Toronto in Atwood’s novel and the little protagonist’s home farm in The Seventh Spring of Peace) and discuss in detail the problematic process of identityconstruction of the young protagonists.

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