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Article: Revenge of the Rats.(the image of Rene Descartes is destroyed in the fiction of Scandinavian Kerstin Ekman)
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- Scandinavian Studies
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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The Cartesian Body in Kerstin Ekman's Rovarna i Skuleskogen
I would like to invite my reader to view a body. It is an historical body--the body of a famous philosopher--and it appears in Kerstin Ekman's novel, Rovarna i Skuleskogen. [The Robbers of Skule Forest]. Despite the brevity of the dead philosopher's cameo appearance, his presence may be the single most important key to understanding the philosophical grounds for Ekman's historical/ magical novel. In her reading of history, the death of Descartes is not so much an accomplished fact as a death-wish: a wish for the death of Cartesian rationalism, for the death of notion of animal as machine, and for the ...