The presence of scientific thinking in Ian McEwan’s Solar

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Autor(a) principal: Hülsendeger, Margarete Jesusa
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Letras de Hoje (Online)
Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/fale/article/view/37101
Resumo: The study of how characters from the natural sciences are represented in the literature can become a way to establish connections between these two areas of knowledge, apparently so distinct. Furthermore, literature can also start to reflect not only the knowledge of science, but that of the scientist himself, demonstrating that these two fields of knowledge inhabit the same cultural space, influencing each other. In the work Solar (2010), by the English writer Ian McEwan, this movement is perceptible, because the protagonist is a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, thus, a professional working within his field of work. Therefore, in this article the objective is to analyze the representation of the physicist in Solar, establishing relations between the image created by the author and philosophical conceptions about scientific thinking.