Reading the mood of the times: Dystopian feel

Ever the contrarian, Oscar Wilde upended the Aristotelian mimesis by declaring that “life imitates art”.

Reading the mood of the times: Dystopian feel
Wed, 25 Jul, 2018 - 01:00

Ever the contrarian, Oscar Wilde upended the Aristotelian mimesis by declaring that “life imitates art”.

Yet, if the longlist of novels for the 2018 Booker Prize is anything to go by, Aristotle got it right and art imitates life or, at least, reflects it.

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