Philosophical Fiction

In a world where we are constantly bombarded with choices, it’s refreshing to read a philosophical fiction books that make you think about the bigger picture. The philosophical fiction genre is a specific class of the fiction style that introduces questions normally managed in philosophy. Explore the human condition, the…

Books like Milan Kundera’s ‘The Unbearable Likeness of Being’ come along very rarely. Novels of ‘the boldest mastery, originality and richness’ often disguise themselves behind the facades of academia or criticism, but not this one. Exploring the realms of existentialism, stoicism and at points outright hedonism, Kundera mingles the weight of moral philosophy with the lightness of beautifully constructed prose. Through elegant conviction and adamantly inviting substance, Kundera meticulously creates a tapestry of profound ideas woven within the lives of each character. Any review you read of this book will be unable to do it justice. Kundera has produced a simply sublime work of art. If you are to read any book this year, read this one.

Some things that come to mind when you think about science fiction are aliens, spaceships, lasers, warp drives, robots, or space battles. But science fiction has also become a conduit for authors to address issues about spirituality- religion, faith, destiny, purpose, and what exactly being human means. Science fiction scope…

I recently read a beautiful book ‘ Tuesdays with Morrie’ . I completed the book within two days . That's how much I was hooked to it. …

The middle-aged man who died and left behind a healthy body for Kornu Landon Boy to inhabit did not die of some expensive incurable illness. He died of a broken heart. You see, Kornu Landon Boy was on his way back to the land of the living when he happened…

TLMAP — 088011 (Letter the first) I am writing these words sitting in the darkness of my cave, a reality that for me as you well know stands for much more than basking in the wisdom that we have acquired during these long years. There exists a very intimate relationship between the conceptual and the real, between…

Michael Gereon, a philosophy lecturer on sabbatical after an unexplained breakdown, lives in a decayed house in the East End of London with his estranged wife Peggy. The same house in which his mother was battered to death in a drug-deal gone wrong when he was sixteen. Michael’s brother-in-law, Wilf…