Elements of Science Fiction and the Fascination with the Post-human Gaze in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos
Elements of Science Fiction and the Fascination with the Post-human Gaze in Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos

Summary/Abstract: Our paper examines the functions and uses of science fiction strategies, the structure of the apocalyptic narrative and the post-human perspective in Kurt Vonnegut’s prose, especially in his comic bio-apocalypse Galápagos. We also analyze the functions of the “post-human gaze” for the representation of an impossible event, namely the end of human species and its replacement with an inferior humanoid species, also to be compared with other bio-apocalypses.

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