Her previous work, "Bewilderments," had already captured Moses in the desert, ridden by skepticism.
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They worked because of growing precariousness, inequality, impunity, alienation, globalization, tribalism, powerlessness, bombardment and cacophony — all the failures of democracies and bewilderments of digital disruption.
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How to escape the bewilderments of the 21st century is the central question of the book: a "sequence of steps enabling one to back out of the world," as the trapped lecturer puts it.
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Everyone on stage, dressed for vacation play in Andrea Hood's sunny costumes, just seemed so glad to be there, part of a shared process of extracting rhyme, reason and song out of life's bewilderments.
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In their interviews authors often spoke of the value of speculative fiction. By imagining possible futures science fiction authors prepare their readers for “future shock”—the fear and confusion many people experience when confronted with the bewilderments of modern technology. Science fiction also expands readers’ minds by exploring scenarios of future warfare, environmental decay, and cosmic catastrophes. The show's three-year tenure was also an exciting and fertile time for the genre of science fiction (and fantasy).
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Aaron Peck is a Canadian writer and educator. He is the author of the novella The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis, published by Pedlar Press in 2008, and an art book, Letters to the Pacific, published by Publication Studio in 2010. In 2016, Peck authored the monograph Jeff Wall: North & West, which was nominated for the Melva J. Dwyer Award in the same year. Peck's criticism has appeared in Frieze, The New York Review of Books Daily, The White Review, Art Agenda, Artforum, Art Papers, Canadian Art, and Fillip.
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The Son of Laughter exemplifies those themes most often associated with Buechner’s work. Where all of his previous novels approach the topic of God from a post-incarnational perspective, in The Son of Laughter the narrator speaks with a pre-incarnational perspective. As such, there is a greater sense of discovery in the prose, which brings a sharpness to all the thematic expressions most commonly found within the Buechner corpus: doubt, grief, joy, anger, gratitude, and mystery. Buechner scholar Dale Brown adds that: > Buechner’s rendering of Jacob, the Old Testament trickster who came to be > known as Israel, emphasizes the humanness of the father of nations – his > loves and jealousies, his humiliations and bewilderments.
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