Formal Analysis of Galatea 2.2The novel became important in the 19th century as the middle class became more educated and desired entertainment. With the advent of the 20th century and its sophisticated technologies, the form of the novel expanded to include science fiction: a genre that combines humanity's admiration for new technologies and the age-old attribute of fantasy . Science fiction writers have found it necessary to employ the traditional style of the novel in their modern works. This is one of the main points of "Galatea 2.2" by Richard Powers. It combines the realism of the traditional English novel with the fantasy of the future world. The fantasy of “Galatea 2.2” is not concrete: the fictional project appears natural here. As an autobiographical novel, the story represents the point of view of the narrator who always speaks in the first person. He seems objective towards himself, but also towards the society he enters. Through his words, the narration moves fluidly from the past to the present, but it is actually set in the future. It's the implementation that almost always makes connections to Powers's past :C. It's also the implementation that makes him look toward the future. But this is only one level of the story: the level of the near future. This plan has limited space and time. Its place is the Center of the U., and it rarely exceeds these borders. Its duration is also limited: one year, up to the doctorate. test. When we read, we always feel the pressure of time. The second level of the novel, C., is that of love and memory. Here, time seems mythical, and space is the world: U. and B. in the United States; E. in the Netherlands, etc. The narrator explores both planes with the same attention, the same details and the same intensity. The...... middle of paper......-last words: 'Don't stay away too long.'" (329) He also paraphrases and quotes the most significant novels, plays, and poems of the past like "Pygmalion", "Tempest", "Don Quixote", "Frankenstein", "Paradise Lost", etc. Each of these connections brings a symbolic texture to the whole work. of the plot: Powers, AI or C.? Who ultimately won? And where are the famous “last words”? This novel, in its ambiguity and its realism, leaves us with the feeling that this story will continue and that, d? in a strange way, we want to be part of it. It takes us from a past real world to the fiction of the future where “The brain is wider than the sky” and “deeper than the sea” (Epigraph and reality. and fiction "differ [...]/As); syllable from sound" (Epigraph, 11-12). Work CitedPowers, Richard. Galatea 2.2. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.. 1996