Article: TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY BY ARTHUR C. CLARKE

2001: A Space Odyssey was written as a novel simultaneously with the film screenplay. The date came from the director Stanley Kubrick but the second half, the 'Odyssey' component, was Clarke's idea. It is a neglected key to the project's interpretation. Clarke said that the 'Odyssean parallel' was 'a deliberate attempt at creating a myth', and long before the film, in a 1958 book of essays, had written: 'Across the gulf of ...

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