Literature
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Meta-Fiction: 6 Novels about Books
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams(1979). Characters consult The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in the playful science fiction novel of the same name. This is an example of a mise en abyme, or a book within a book. The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1999). A book about books, a novel about the influence of Viriginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway upon the lives of three generations of women: “The first is Woolf herself writing Mrs. Dalloway in 1923 and struggling with her own mental illness. The second is Mrs. Brown, wife of a World War II veteran, who is reading Mrs. Dalloway in 1949 as she plans her husband’s birthday party. The third is Clarissa Vaughan, a lesbian, who plans…
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Woman Crush Wednesday | Lucy Liu
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Woman Crush Wednesday | Lucy Liu
Originally Posted 30th March 2020 Lucy Liu poses as famous faces from across the ages for Marie Claire China’s April 2020 edition.
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Meta-Fiction: 6 Novels about Books
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Examples of Fragmented Narrative: Part I
This is when the story is all over the place. We just get bits of it from past and present and future and have to work out what happened and in what order for ourselves. Joseph Heller uses this extensively in the novel Catch-22. There was never an official time line and any made by someone else would have taken lots of work and still wouldn’t have been accurate. Heller reportedly tried to make a time line after he had written the book “to make sure everything was in order” and found he had made a significant contradiction at one point, but decided to leave it in since fixing it would…
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Example’s of Flashbacks
This is when the narrative moves back in time. The Phantom of the Opera is told in one giant flashback, as the show’s opening scene is of the aged Raoul attending an auction selling off items from the opera house. Miss Saigon goes back to “The Fall of Saigon” midway through the second act Harry Potter has the Pensieve and Tom Riddle’s diary, allowing for magical plot important flashbacks. In The Dark Tower, Book One: The Gunslinger, the first quarter of the novel is devoted to flashbacks to events just prior to the beginning of the novel, and flashbacks to Roland’s childhood within those. In Book Four: Wizard and Glass, the bulk of the story is a flashback to…
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Quote: Gordon Frohman, Concerned
I think I’ll try extra hard to remember today’s events and conversations, in case I someday want to recall them verbatim.
