Imagination Dead Imagine (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Beckett
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Plot: Fable
- Time of Work: Possibly after a nuclear holocaust
- Setting: Unspecified
- Principal Characters: An unnamed narrator, Two unnamed humans
- Genres: Fable, Short fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Human race, Imagination, Survivalism, Disasters, Life, philosophy of, Nuclear warfare or weapons, Technology
The Story
The terse, ambiguous title of this story is consistent with the tale itself, in which a narrator describes flatly the real (or imaginary) discovery of a small rotunda in a white wasteland, the investigation of the same with some scientific care, and the final withdrawal from it after its dimensions, shape, and occupants have been systematically examined. The narrator leaves, convinced that there will be no chance of ever finding the building again.
The obvious thinness of such an overview may sufficiently convince a reader that something more is going on, and...
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