Formal Analysis of Galatea 2.2 The 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 awe of new technologies and the ancient attribute of fantasy. Science fiction writers found it necessary to employ the traditional style of the novel in their modern works. This is one of the main points of Richard Powers' "Galatea 2.2". 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 imaginary plane here seems to be natural. Being an autobiographical novel, the narration represents the point of view of the narrator who always speaks in the first person. He seems to be objective towards himself and also towards the society he enters. Through his words, the narrative moves fluidly from the past to the present, but is actually in the future. It's the implementation that almost always makes connections to Powers' past: C. It's also the implementation that makes him look to the future. But this is only one level of storytelling: the near-future level. This plan has limited space and time. Its place is the Center of U., and it rarely crosses these borders. His time is also limited: one year, until his doctorate. test. While reading you always have the feeling that time is running out. The second level of the novel, C., is that of love and memory. Here time seems to be mythical, and space is the world: U. and B. in the States; E. in the Netherlands, etc. The narrator explores both planes with the same attention, detail and intensity. The... middle of the paper... the last words: 'Don't stay away too long.'" (329) He also paraphrases and quotes the most significant novels, plays and poems of the past such as "Pygmalion", " Tempest", "Don Quixote", "Frankenstein", "Paradise Lost", etc. Each of these connections brings a symbolic plot to the entire work. So who was the center of the plot: Powers, AI or C.? Who in the end did he win? And where are the infamous "last words" Does this novel in its ambiguity and realism leave us with the feeling that this story will go on and that in some strange way we want to be part of it, it takes us from a real world passed into fiction? of the future where "The brain is wider than the sky" and "deeper than the sea" (Epigraph); (Epigraph, 11-12). Work CitedPowers, Richard. Galatea 2.2. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. 1996