Ordering the Formative Literature
Within The
Question, Dana Barbour's initial groundbreaking
novel, the author not only explores the time-honored
question of man's inhumanity to man (and all else) as
the problematical "master of all he surveys," but
without didactic recourse within his own putative voice
incrementally presents a moral alternative. That
alternative itself requires the otherwise-conditioned
reader's very need to redefine language with regard to
its otherwise-divisive referents in order to surmount
that very divisiveness which, from their own varying
perspectives, both the philosophical existentialist and
semanticist at least have known to exist, however much
stopping short of where the author leads us.
Within the stand-alone sequel,
Beyond the Question, the characters
who've become to be the morally dedicated exponents of
this social alternative strive to make it universally
available among their own kind within a human world
predominantly motivated by self-serving moral
relativism, their being unable to impose it upon others
by reference to its own applied constraints.
Throughout both novels, the author implicitly challenges us even as his "formative family" challenges "fictional" others. Yet, in both parallel endeavors, he doesn't lose sight of the genre within which he communicates any more than he does the "catch-22" which is the presently necessary-if-divisive medium of language itself. Both novels still do stand as novels... their characters distinguished and credibly motivated within equally credible events given the possibilities of our near future as the sovereign-if-not-yet-moral species of rational fact.
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