SDStewart-TheLastMan-ErasuresDownload S. D. Stewart is the author of the novel A Set of Lines, the short fiction collection Hatred of Writing, and the fictional journal Bunker Diarie…

The Last Man is a new, one-person musical, currently premiering its English-language production at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant.

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Literature has long sounded ecological alarms and imagined our planetary futures, finds Lakshmi Krishnan Our oldest stories begin in the soil or by the sea, myth being the original ecological narrative. The Mandé and Sumerians tell of people growing from seeds or moulded from earth; Rigveda, the ancient Hindu sacred text, and the Kojiki, the earliest written Japanese chronicle, speak of births from primordial oceans; and Abrahamic traditions place us in Eden’s lushness. With industrialisation came a new imperative: writers began exploring not just our connection to nature but also our power to destroy it. Climate fiction is a recent literary genre confronting environmental and societal breakdown. But literature has grappled with the interplay of people and environment long before “cli-fi” exploded in the 2010s. These works offer more than historical perspective. They reveal how story and imagination might help us grasp what climate data alone cannot—the full scope of our crisis—while helping us to envision paths beyond catastrophe. Lionel Verney is the sole survivor of a global plague in a 21st century Europe torn asunder by political upheaval, societal collapse, and environmental catastrophe. Shelley is better known for Frankenstein (1818); Last Man pushes those Gothic scientific horrors further, to humanity’s extinction. Written after Mount Tambora erupted in today’s Indonesia, causing a volcanic winter that lasted over two years, and reflecting Shelley’s personal tragedy, this prophecy about human spirit in the face of disaster influenced a flock of apocalyptic subgenres: the trope of a lonely human roaming the planet after a “die-off” endures. Read it for the clarity of Shelley’s vision and her evocative prose: memorably, in Verney’s encounter with a sheepdog still guarding its dead shepherd’s flock—crystallising nature’s persistence against our impermanence and suggesting the …

Для него это будет дебют в японском кино.