Genesis plural: Jenny Diski’s reconfiguration of God and his Word in only Human
(2015) English Text Construction — Vol. 8, n° 2, p. 194-206 (2015)
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- This article is devoted to Jenny Diski's polyphonic rewriting of the biblical myth of Abraham and Sarah in Only Human: A Divine Comedy (2000). It shows how this subversive novel, through its juxtaposition of two competing narrative voices - an unidentified human narrator and God himself -, challenges the omniscience and transcendence usually attributed to God, but also the power of his creative Word, and launches a reflection on storytelling and truth, presenting thereby an "only human" Bible
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Bertrand, I. (2015). Genesis plural: Jenny Diski’s reconfiguration of God and his Word in only Human. English Text Construction, 8(2), 194-206. https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.8.2.03ber (Original work published 2015)