ABSTRACT
The basic argument is that life itself is in search of narrative 'because it strives to discover a pattern to cope with the experience of chaos and confusion. It works better than ever thanks to this expanding of the ways 'of making our lives into life-stories'. The main arguments in both On Stories and Strangers, Gods and Monsters was that live in a time of crisis - crisis of identity, crisis of legitimation, crisis of authority. Authority involves the crucial question of legislation - and this arises at critical moments in the life of a state, usually after a civil war or constitutional crisis. Narrative has a crucial role, especially now, of narrative at the public level, because collective memory and collective identity are based on stories concerning the founding events. Central theme explored in The God Who May Be is that of 'possibility'. It deals primarily with eschatological and ontological notions of the possible.
