In the Lemnian maze: Greek tragedy and science fiction in Robert Silverberg’s The Man in the Maze

Authors

  • Mateus Dagios Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/intellectus.2020.44667

Keywords:

science fiction, Philoctetes, reception of antiquity

Abstract

The paper discusses the novel The Man in the Maze by Robert Silverberg (1969) and its relationship to the Greek tragedy Philoctetes by Sophocles (409 B.C.), highlighting plot similarities as well as the maze symbolism in Silverberg’s work. At the intersection between Greek tragedy and science fiction, the analysis explores the reception of antiquity and the importance of New Wave as a revival project in the genre of science fiction that built new narratives to answer the call for a new imaginary born out of the cultural turmoil of the 1960s.

Author Biography

Mateus Dagios, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutor em História - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

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Published

2020-07-17

How to Cite

Dagios, M. (2020). In the Lemnian maze: Greek tragedy and science fiction in Robert Silverberg’s The Man in the Maze. Intellèctus, 19(1), 318–339. https://doi.org/10.12957/intellectus.2020.44667