The Resurrection (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: John Gardner
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Metaphysical
- Time of Work: Early 1960’s
- Setting: Batavia, New York
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Philosophy or philosophers, Cancer, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Leukemia
- Locales: Batavia, NY
Characters Discussed
James Chandler, a forty-one-year-old philosophy professor at Stanford University. Influenced by R. G. Collingwood, especially his idea that the process that destroys also creates, Chandler is at odds with the philosophical fashions of his time—positivism and existentialism. This quixotic as well as meditative and usually cheerful academic thus begins writing an “apology for contemporary metaphysics,” then learns that he is suffering from aleukemic leukemia and has only a few months to live. Rather than stay in the hospital in order to prolong his life...
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