# Quote — Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: From bestselling author and winner of the 2018 Jnanpith Award

> the great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities.

- Author: [Amitav Ghosh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amitav-ghosh.md)
- Book: [The Great Derangement: From bestselling author and winner of the 2018 Jnanpith Award](https://www.leafyquotes.com/amitav-ghosh/the-great-derangement-from-bestselling-author-and-winner-of-the-2018-jnanpith-award.md)
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> at exactly the time when it has become clear that global warming is in every sense a collective predicament, humanity finds itself in the thrall of a dominant culture in which the idea of the collective has been exiled from politics, economics, and literature alike.

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> Just as novels have come to be seen as narratives of identity, so too has politics become, for many, a search for personal authenticity, a journey of self-discovery.

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> To want to be ahead, and to celebrate and mythify this endeavor, is indeed one of the most powerful impulses of modernity itself.

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