Taming the Terror of Death in George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo e jurnal

This article explores the fear of death and the constant attempts to allay it as represented in George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo (2017). In the novel, death is an ever-present and inescapable threat that humans are unable to face directly. Contemplating death as reflected in the novel calls to mind one of François de La Rochefoucauld’s maxims: “Neither the sun nor death can be …