Constructing a Community of Life Between Humans and Nature: Ethical Reflections in The Living Sea of Waking Dreams.

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a masterpiece by Australian author Richard Flanagan, following his Booker Prize win in 2014. The author uses magical realism to intertwine two ethical threads - the extinction of natural life and the desolation of human intrinsic life value -symbolized by the "disappearance" of the protagonist's body parts. The novel reflects on this dual crisis. Ultimately, Flanagan points out that the root cause of this dual crisis is the rupture of the community of life between humans and nature. Based on this, Flanagan calls for a re-examination of human subjectivity in his work, and the reshaping of a sense of community between humans and nature centered on symbiosis and coexistence, in order to save both the natural world and humanity itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]