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/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7938 Miller, Henry. The Time of the Assasins. 1956.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8134 James, Henry. The Wheel of Time. 1893.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8356 Amis, Martin. Time's Arrow. 1991.

Martin Amis’s novel Time’s Arrow can be defined, at one level, as an “unnatural narrative” (Alber 2009) because intradiegetic time (time within the story) moves backwards. Many narratives confront us with retrogressive temporalities (Richardson 2002: 49-50), among which one can mention Elizabeth Jane Howard’s novel The Long View (1956), Charles Hubert Sisson’s novel Christopher Homm (1965), Tom Stoppard’s play Artist Descending a Staircase (1972), Don DeLillo’s novel Underworld (1997) and Christopher Nolan’s film Memento (2001). In most of these cases of reversed time the narrative discourse represents a chronological sequence of events in such a way that we gradually move backwards in time, while the individual sections themselves preserve a regular chronology, i.e. they move forward through time. However, in some (more extreme) cases, such as Alejo Carpentier “Viaje a la semilla” (1944), Ilse Aichinger’s

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8359 Burgess, Anthony. Time for a Tiger. 1956.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8360 Matthews, William. Time & Money. 1995.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=9584 Jameson, Storm. Triumph of Time. 1927.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=9657 Ambler, Eric. The Care of Time. 1981.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10025 Murdoch, Iris. The Time of the Angels. 1966.

The Time of the Angels was heavily influenced by Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and likewise contrasts the Apollonian world of reason, clarity and morality with the Dionysian realm of irrationality, emotionalism and formlessness. Murdoch portrays this conflict in her characterisations of the two male protagonists, Marcus Fisher, a headmaster who is a Platonist and writer of a Nietzschean-style treatise on moral philosophy entitled “Morality in a World without God” (19), and his older brother Carel Fisher, an Anglican cleric who professes “to be the priest of no God” (182). In this novel, Murdoch plays out the central concern of her moral philosophy, namely the search for meaning in a world without God. Ostensibly echoing Carel’s ontological stance, Murdoch states in The Sovereignty of Good (1967) that “there is, in my view, no God in the traditional sense of that term” (79). Yet, Marcus also reflects certain of Murdoch’s own views. As any avi

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10158 O'Brien, Edna. Time and Tide. 1992.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10307 Pratchett, Terry. Interesting Times. 1994.