6/5/2023 0 Comments Cloud Atlas by David MitchellShort-listed for the Man Booker Prize and adapted for a 2012 film directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski (The Matrix series) and Tom Twyker (Run Lola Run), the novel established Mitchell’s international popularity as a writer who could uncannily ventriloquize voices across time and create riveting, philosophically and politically complex narratives in multiple genres that tested the limits of style, form, and language. Cloud Atlas is arguably Mitchell’s most highly regarded, widely read novel to date and “perhaps his most ambitious experiment in narrative form and the possibilities of storytelling” (Hopf, 108). Timothy Cavendish, in Cloud Atlas (354) Time, no arrow, no boomerang, but a concertina. Sonmi~451, in Cloud Atlas (235) Time is the speed at which the past decays, but disneys enable a brief resurrection.
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