Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article analyzes Ed Park’s Same Bed Different Dreams using the concept of the rhizome, which leads to the exploration of the entropy–utopia multiplicity. This advances the examination of the book’s dynamics and components, which point to the paradigm of metamodernism. Additionally, the novel’s use of fragmentation and intertextuality places it outside of the either/or dialectic, or any unifying notion. The article thus presents Same Bed Different Dreams as an example of a contemporary experimental novel that neither embraces nor negates fixed notions, but finds its own means of expression set on creating through and despite ruin embedded in its construction and subject matter.
DOI: 10.31261/errgo.17879
Author: Mateusz Naporowski
Institution: University of Silesia in Katowice
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7116737121