Voices in Time (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Hugh MacLennan
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Historical realism
- Time of Work: 2039-2044, with flashbacks to the twentieth century
- Setting: Germany and Montreal and the surrounding area
- Principal Characters: John Wellfleet, Timothy Wellfleet, Conrad Dehmel, Andre Gervais
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Twentieth century, Social issues, Communication, Future, Twenty-first century, Canada or Canadians, Nazism or Nazis, Generation gap, Germany or German people, Nuclear warfare or weapons
- Locales: Canada, Montreal, Canada, Germany
The Novel
The novel begins with John Wellfleet, a resident of an old people’s compound, receiving a telephone call from a young man, Andre Gervais. The year is 2039, fifty years after a nuclear holocaust, known as the Destructions, has ended civilization, leaving only a few survivors. Gervais has discovered an old box in the ruins of Montreal. The box is full of papers and tapes of the Wellfleet family. Although Gervais knows that the repressive government, known as the Bureaucracy, would prohibit such an act, he wants John to come to the city to look at the box. When John...
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