![]() ![]() This is both the advantage and the limitation of both the trilogy and the individual novels. The narratives remain in constant dialogue with each other: plotlines only touched upon in the second volume come to fruition here in light of the first book, and certain elements and episodes of the preceding volumes are explained in hindsight. Rather than presenting successive linear accounts of life after the “waterless Flood” interspersed with analeptic snapshots of the world past, Atwood in her trilogy opts for a three-piece puzzle. The publication of MaddAddam in the fall of 2013 marked the completion of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, set in a post-apocalyptic environment where most of humanity has been wiped out by a virus bioengineered by Crake, a reincarnation of the archetypal mad scientist. Then there’s what you leave out of the story. “There’s the story, then there’s the real story, then there’s the story of how the story came to be told. ![]() London, New Delhi, New York and Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2013. Her research interests include various topics related to the fantastic in the arts-currently the use of space in postapocalyptic SF- and the fiction of Margaret Atwood. Vera Benczik is assistant professor at the Department of American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. "Review of Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam" by Vera Benczik ![]()
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