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The Book of Form and Emptiness is a novel by American author Ruth Ozeki, published in 2021 by Viking. Ozeki's fourth novel, the book won the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction . The story follows a boy who hears voices from inanimate objects while the narrative explores themes of mental illness and bereavement.
The meaning of emptiness as contemplated here is explained at M I.297 and S IV.296-97 as the "emancipation of the mind by emptiness" (suññatā cetovimutti) being consequent upon the realization that "this world is empty of self or anything pertaining to self" (suññam ida ṃ attena vā attaniyena vā). [16] [17]
A novel which “stood out for its sparkling writing and poignancy” has been named winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. American-Canadian author Ruth Ozeki, 66, scooped the prestigious ...
The Void is a recurring motif in cinema, often used to symbolize existential dread, the unknown, or the metaphysical boundaries between life and death. Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is one of the most iconic examples, where the vast emptiness of space represents both the awe-inspiring and terrifying aspects of the Void. The ...
'darkness, gloom'), [2] or Erebos, is the personification of darkness. In Hesiod 's Theogony , he is the offspring of Chaos , and the father of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Nyx (Night); in other Greek cosmogonies, he is the father of Aether, Eros , and Metis , or the first ruler of the gods.
In the beginning of the novel, the salvation and happiness promised by the prophet in Culla's dream never arrives. Instead, the world remains in cold darkness, unchanged. The last scene of the novel, in which a blind man walks off into the mire of a bog, is a paradigm for a dead-end, paradigmless world. [4]
George Orwell makes a bitterly ironic use of the "light and darkness" topos in his Nineteen Eighty Four. In the early part of the book the protagonist gets a promise that "We will meet in the place where there is no darkness" – which he interprets as referring to a place where the oppressive totalitarian state does not rule.
The novel is written as a first-person narrative of Peter Pustota (whose surname literally means "void") and in the introduction to this book it is claimed that unlike Dmitriy Furmanov's book Chapayev, this book is the truth. The book is set in two different times – after the October Revolution and in modern Russia.