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City of God Study Guide

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by E. L. Doctorow
About 79 pages (23,588 words)
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E. L. Doctorow's novel City of God is arguably his most ambitious, intellectually probing, and controversial literary effort to date. Among the important matters dealt with or touched on here, are the following: (1) evolution as a broadly based process in the universe and on earth; (2) small-particle physics, Creation theory, cosmology and astronomy; (3) the City as high concept (New York being considered as the embodiment of the City); (4) theology, theodicy (the justification of God's ways to humans) and religious practice; (5) the Holocaust experience; (6) philosophy (the nature of meaning, language, love, existence, reality, progress, et al.); (7) music theory; (8) cinematography; (9) song hits of the earlier twentieth century, and commentaries on them; (10) excerpts of biographies and autobiographies (e.g., Ludwig Wittgenstein, Everett's father and brother); (11) ideas for movie scenarios, including.....

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