Review by Mohammed_Sameer2 -- Days of Future Found
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[Following is a volunteer review of "Days of Future Found" by M. K. Wark.]
In her novel "Days of Future Found", M. K. Wark presented a viewpoint on the psychological impact of the technical life on various characters who waited a deferred happiness beyond old human conflicts and diseases. But it seems that this new technical life includes new challenges and basic intellectual questions about concepts of nature, health, art, death, spirit and truth. Therefore, we faced a new discordance between the technical power of the artificial world and the nostalgic activity of the original, old world.
Moreover, the narrator established a new reality which was based on the technical transformations in everyday life, medicine, mechanical entertainment, and the rise of the virtual world. After that, the narrator revealed various, internal responses against these social and cultural transformations through the basic characters, such as Ella, Riley, Harold and Maya, that we can recognize Riley attempted to enter the new world. On the other hand, Ella wanted to return to nature, individual spirit and originality. Also, Maya supported truth beyond negative and mechanical life on the ship, but Harold lived with an inner conflict between old beauty and mechanical music, and he wanted to live a real experience of inner peace. Consequently, the narration was calm, and the narrator was concerned with the psychological impact of this new society on the relative human cognition.
Additionally, we can recognize many structural discordances between two conflicted worlds, such as the old imaginary and creative world against the artificial, gray world and its massive images. In this context, the narrator implied to Victor Fleming's "The Wizard of Oz", but the new technical space was devoid of childish joy because of its absurd expectance. Also, we found the discordance between the natural blue color against the gray artificial atmosphere, art and technical image or sound and creative identity against the negative life on the symbolic ship, that this ship implied to escape, existential anxiety and death at the same time.
Despite the mechanical welfare in the new society, the narrator also referred to the recurring natural disasters and new cyber warfare. Additionally, we can recognize horror and hidden peace in the faces of old and dead people. Therefore, this world exhausted itself and pushed characters to return to originality and critical truth.
Because of its mystic destines and some complex technical references, I recommend the novel to youth and older readers. Also, I'll give it 4 out of 4 stars due to its critical perspective on imaginary future days.
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Days of Future Found
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In her novel "Days of Future Found", M. K. Wark presented a viewpoint on the psychological impact of the technical life on various characters who waited a deferred happiness beyond old human conflicts and diseases. But it seems that this new technical life includes new challenges and basic intellectual questions about concepts of nature, health, art, death, spirit and truth. Therefore, we faced a new discordance between the technical power of the artificial world and the nostalgic activity of the original, old world.
Moreover, the narrator established a new reality which was based on the technical transformations in everyday life, medicine, mechanical entertainment, and the rise of the virtual world. After that, the narrator revealed various, internal responses against these social and cultural transformations through the basic characters, such as Ella, Riley, Harold and Maya, that we can recognize Riley attempted to enter the new world. On the other hand, Ella wanted to return to nature, individual spirit and originality. Also, Maya supported truth beyond negative and mechanical life on the ship, but Harold lived with an inner conflict between old beauty and mechanical music, and he wanted to live a real experience of inner peace. Consequently, the narration was calm, and the narrator was concerned with the psychological impact of this new society on the relative human cognition.
Additionally, we can recognize many structural discordances between two conflicted worlds, such as the old imaginary and creative world against the artificial, gray world and its massive images. In this context, the narrator implied to Victor Fleming's "The Wizard of Oz", but the new technical space was devoid of childish joy because of its absurd expectance. Also, we found the discordance between the natural blue color against the gray artificial atmosphere, art and technical image or sound and creative identity against the negative life on the symbolic ship, that this ship implied to escape, existential anxiety and death at the same time.
Despite the mechanical welfare in the new society, the narrator also referred to the recurring natural disasters and new cyber warfare. Additionally, we can recognize horror and hidden peace in the faces of old and dead people. Therefore, this world exhausted itself and pushed characters to return to originality and critical truth.
Because of its mystic destines and some complex technical references, I recommend the novel to youth and older readers. Also, I'll give it 4 out of 4 stars due to its critical perspective on imaginary future days.
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Days of Future Found
View: on Bookshelves |
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