About time, part 2: Time in fiction

12/09/2021 28 min
About time, part 2: Time in fiction

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Episode Synopsis


During the early 20th century, physicists and philosophers were discovering strange things about time. And these ideas were being picked up by novelists, who wove them into such masterpieces as Joyces Ulysses and Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway – texts that continue to challenge our notions of everyday temporality.