{"title":"Sara Lidman's Secular Reading of Original Sin","authors":"Nora Hämäläinen","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper takes a plunge into the novelistic universe of Swedish writer Sara Lidman's epic of modernity in the novel suite The Railway, focusing on her secular reinterpretation of original sin and the fall, and her rendering of the fundamental agonism of human existence, set in a frame of social change, liberal hope, and voracious capitalism. It considers Lidman's thinking as a suggestion for the kind of new conception of original sin that Iris Murdoch called for.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":"45 1","pages":"102 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/phl.2021.0006","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0006","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This paper takes a plunge into the novelistic universe of Swedish writer Sara Lidman's epic of modernity in the novel suite The Railway, focusing on her secular reinterpretation of original sin and the fall, and her rendering of the fundamental agonism of human existence, set in a frame of social change, liberal hope, and voracious capitalism. It considers Lidman's thinking as a suggestion for the kind of new conception of original sin that Iris Murdoch called for.
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For more than a quarter century, Philosophy and Literature has explored the dialogue between literary and philosophical studies. The journal offers a constant source of fresh, stimulating ideas in the aesthetics of literature, theory of criticism, philosophical interpretation of literature, and literary treatment of philosophy. Philosophy and Literature challenges the cant and pretensions of academic priesthoods by publishing an assortment of lively, wide-ranging essays, notes, and reviews that are written in clear, jargon-free prose. In his regular column, editor Denis Dutton targets the fashions and inanities of contemporary intellectual life.