‘I’ve got a lot of keys, but I haven’t found the airplane yet,’ Heuer chuckled. (This plane doesn’t make an appearance in the movie.)Īccording to Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director-general at CERN, the X-33 is a figment of Brown’s imagination. The benefits of this study include changing attitude to the literary heritage of the author and drawing more attention of scholars to the given novel.Will human-made black holes destroy the world? Could artificially created anti-matter be an alternative source of energy? Did Al Gore really invent the World Wide Web? Do super-secret super-sonic jets that can cross the Atlantic Ocean in about an hour really exist? The novel Angels and Demons by Dan Brown, released this past weekend as a major motion picture directed by Ron Howard, raises these and other questions.Īccording to renowned physicists who participated in a National Science Foundation video conference Tuesday, May 19th, some of what is divulged in the Brown novel is pure fiction, but much of it has a real basis in science.įor example, in the novel, Robert Langdon flies from Boston to Switzerland in a mysterious supersonic jet prototype, the X-33, which can travel ‘at the mind-numbing speed of 11,000 mph.’ In the story, the plane is owned by leading Swiss nuclear research facility the (CERN). Thus, these results have been reached by implementing biographical approach in considering the writer’s literary career historical approach in analyzing inaccuracies in depiction of the historical events and mythological in tracing the reflection of the novelist’s archetypal concept. Furthermore, we traced how the author’s concept of the archetypal notions of Angels and Demons was reflected in the novel. This research has proved that this novel contains artistic merit and cannot be referred to as Pop culture product, repeating the same stamp. This situation is particularly topical with the works that open a series of sequels exploring the same theme or featuring the same protagonist, like the novel under our investigation. Moreover, there are novels that contain some elements of Pulp fiction, and yet they do not belong to this type of literature.

This situation, in turn, is reflected in the blurring of the frontiers between Highbrow and Lowbrow literature. Nowadays the genres eclecticism is so widespread that it is sometimes impossible to identify to which genre a work belongs.

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