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Maddaddam trilogy by margaret atwood5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Delusion tends to conceal itself from those suffering from it. But subsequent books in the trilogy reveal that, at least for the end of Oryx & Crake, Snowman is feverish and delusional, a fact more obscured in his narration, because naturally it is. In the past and in the present alike, we linger with Snowman and his third-person perspective, relying on him to convey the events he witnessed, limited by the knowledge he has. Oryx & Crake is narrated solely by Snowman (or Snowman-the-Jimmy, if you prefer), varying only in its temporal spaces. Why do we tell stories? How do we tell them? And, perhaps most importantly, who gets to tell them, and how does that affect the story itself? ![]() Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy can easily be interpreted as a reflection on the practice of storytelling itself, conveying both its own dystopian plot threads and ruminations about the process of writing. ![]() (This post can be considered a follow-up to my previous post about the narrative structure of Oryx & Crake, expanded to include such structures in The Year of the Flood and the first 200 pages or so of MaddAddam.) ![]()
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