The artistic time in post-apocalyptic novels (a survey through: Anna Kavan’s Ice and Manon Steffan Ros’s the blue book of Nebo)

Abstract

In a world of disasters and uncertaintys, post-apocalyptic literature is increasingly attracting the attention of readers and critics. This article examines Anna Kavan’s Ice and Manon Steffan Ros’s The blue book of Nebo, novels set in post-apocalyptic world - where humans struggle to survive against the disaster of nuclear war and the fury of nature; on the basis of exploiting the characteristics of artistic time in the two novels, thereby discovering philosophical and humane messages. It can be said that in the two works, Anna Kavan and Manon Steffan Ros have built a picture of a devastated post-apocalyptic world by clarifying the destruction of time. The world that the two writers created has broken the linear time model to clearly reflect the collapse of human civilization, the fluctuations in psychological depth and highlight the brutality of the battle for survival.