Book 61 - Peter Ackroyd "The Plato Papers"

[jazzy_dave]

Peter Ackroyd "The Plato Papers" (Chatto and Windus)






A clever short novel set in the year 3700, in a future London where a future Plato orates to the people of the city about the distant, obscured past (including on the novelist Charles Dickens' reviled story On the Origin of Species, the humorist Sigmund Freud, and the Esteemed American Poet known as E. A. Poe. The book ends up being both a playful meditation on a misinterpretation of historical evidence and on the nature of philosophical inquiry generally.

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[cmcmck]

I feel that Ackroyd writes way too much!