Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell7/4/2023 ![]() The time transcending soul’s journey and human coexistence conveyed through the symbol of a comet-shaped birthmark is explored with the novel’s embedded narrative structure making it an ontological grand narrative, a term introduced by Jean-François Lyotard to define a unique kind of metanarrative which “sees” an inner connection between events related to one another. ![]() Therefore the object of this BA paper is the novel’s embedded narrative structure and its major themes of rebirth and predacity with relation to the contemporary aesthetic and cultural mentality beyond postmodernism. David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas (2004) explores the intricacies of time-transcending human connections by introducing six seemingly unrelated narratives in a recursive, multi-layered narrative structure. ![]()
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