![]() ![]() ![]() One of the key questions arising from this design is whether Mitchell’s text articulates an anti-historical essentialism that posits some unchangeable ‘human nature’, or whether Cloud Atlas anticipates a cosmopolitanism yet to come. In the current NY Times Magazine, Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell provides his perspective on the production process of the Wachowskis’ and Tom Tykwer’s wild cinematic event, which. The acclaimed author of Cloud Atlas hits a bum note with this hackneyed story of a band in the late 1960s Alex Preston Sun 04.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 11. ![]() The six interlinked and nested narrative segments that constitute the composite text of Cloud Atlas are thematically connected by the confrontation of peaceable solidarity and brutal, dehumanizing predacity, whose most emblematic effect in the novel is the recurrent problem of genocidal enslavement. Moreover, Mitchell himself has been dubbed the ideal representative of a ‘new sincerity’ in British writing which, after the waning appeal of an allegedly irresponsibly playful ‘classical’ postmodernism, is perceived to combine reflexive textual manoeuvres with a serious concern with, if not commitment to, the pressing problems of an increasingly interdependent but by no means convivial world. David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) has been widely discussed as a prominent specimen of the emergent genre of the ‘transnational’, ‘global’, ‘geopolitical’, ‘cosmopolitan’ or ‘planetary’ novel. ![]()
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