Starting from the debate between the two cultures, the book
analyzes the relationship between literature and science in the
last years of the twentieth century in the light of scientific
theories which universally underline both their indeterminacy and
their lack of universal values (Relativity Theory, Quantum
Mechanics, the Uncertainty Principle, Chaos Theory). Scientific
theories are echoed in literary texts but also a reverse influence
from literature to science has taken place. In his scientific
tetralogy John Banville analyzes the figures of those scientists
who contributed to a paradigm shift in the world view from the
early modernity to the present. His interest is not exclusively
focused on epistemology but rather on the creative mind of the
scientist. Science appears to follow the same epiphanic creative
process as literature in its understanding of, and theorizing upon,
an enigmatic sort of reality.
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