Kim Stanley Robinson

Apprenticeships in Narrative

By: Andrew Rowcroft

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Hardcover | 28 May 2024

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184 Pages

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The fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson remains among the most progressive bodies of literary work in its critique of neoliberal capitalism. His novels and short stories have mapped the turbulent historical cycles of capitalist violence, economic expansion, and material despoliation, in turn proposing radical visions of social and economic justice through cooperatives, collective agreements, and stewardship of the environment.

But if Robinson is readily considered a political author, less attention has been paid to his concern with narrative. As scrupulously as Robinson's descriptive powers attempt to comprehend the world, and imagine more egalitarian modes of social existence, his writing matters because it extends itself through a series of innovations in literary form. This book argues that one of the most striking aspects of Robinson's fiction is his concern with literary apprenticeship. Reading a sub-set of novels concerned with human and non-human subjects engaged in composing a narrative account, this book positions Robinson's fiction as addressing a complex of problems ultimately bound to narrative, examining its structures, limits, possibilities, and value. In Robinson, the figure of the apprentice writer battles against the limits of their interpretative powers.

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'Rowcroft's spellbinding study follows Robinson as literary craftsman, as futurist, and as our last great citizen of utopia from his Three Californias (1980s) all the way to his late-career breakthrough novel, The Ministry for the Future (2020). Whether you're a new fan or an old one, this is the handbook to KSR you've been waiting for.' Gerry Canavan, Marquette University

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