Not Needing all the Words: Michael Ondaatje's Literature of Silence

by Annick Hillger

Not Needing all the Words looks at Ondaatje's work in relation to the post-Cartesian idea of the modern subject as split and alienated. Highlighting the distinction between aesthesis and logic, Hillger traces the ways in which Ondaatje responds to the continuing process of silencing art in the modern age of reason.

280 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2006