GB84 generates tragedy by withholding hindsight from its protagonists
Evidence
Yes, we know all this, now. But Peace restores drama by excluding any of the knowledge hindsights brings. The events come at you as if they were happening for the first time, and without the emollient shield of an omniscient authorial voice. As Joseph Brooker identifies in a lengthy piece on GB84 in the current issue of Radical Philosophy, the novel is bereft of any mediating meta-language. The tragic quality the novel possesses even in its earliest scenes comes courtesy of the knowledge we, the readers, bring — but which is, naturally, is denied to the protagonists — of the eventual course that the strike will take. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 214
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A foreshortened temporal perspective blinds people to accumulating catastrophe