King Arthur and his court in World War II: "The king", an allohistory by Donald Barthelme
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https://doi.org/10.30827/impossibilia.252023.26926Keywords:
uchronia, Donald Barthelme, The King, Arthur, World War II, AnachronismAbstract
Donald Barthelme’s The King is a novel about the events of World War II in a United Kingdom ruled by King Arthur and his court, thus translating a legend from the Middle Ages to the mid-20th century. The purpose of this article is to link the novel to the theory of uchronia and highlight the features on the text to be considered as part of this genre, and to show how anachronisms on The King make an alternative world possible. Furthermore, the novel is a parody of our reality through the inclusion of legendary characters themselves and their ways of understanding different aspects of reality.
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