Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. On top of all this, Mitchell designed a whole new future that actually sounds so plausible and explored controversial aspects in abstract ways. But even without it, there was such a beauty in the writing and its symmetries - the mathematical me was satisfied. I'm pretty sure I didn't understand several undertones and smart connections across timelines (gotta Google!). You have to be a careless reader for this - one who doesn't agonise over details. And I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it even a few months back - but I really did now. As if this was not confusing enough, Mitchelle dates his language to fit with each period, including different (and grossly incorrect) spellings and words. And across hundreds of years and multiple stories, the protagonist of each has a connection. And then you go backwards with the end of each story, getting to the oldest again. So you begin with the start of each story from the oldest to the newest, getting to the middle of the book. It has six nested stories that appear disconnected but resolve in reverse chronological order. Cloud Atlas is a book set across hundreds of years - spanning from 18th century colonial New Zealand to a post-apocalyptic world where only a few human tribes have survived and the rest live on another planet.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |