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- Title
Weaving myth and history together: illustration as fabrication in David Mitchell's Black Swan Green and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.
- Authors
Larsonneur, Claire
- Abstract
Black Swan Green (2006) and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010), the two novels by David Mitchell that take up the genre of autobiography, also feature a set of illustrations. The interplay between text and image serves a variety of purposes: it anchors Mitchell's fiction in history, fuels the narratives and opens up onto a rich visual intertextuality, drawing inspiration from Japanese aesthetics. It also challenges the reader by constantly redefining the definitions of fake and fact, through a series of rewritings, transpositions and fabrications.
- Subjects
THEMES in book illustration; BLACK Swan Green (Book); THOUSAND Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, The (Book); MITCHELL, David
- Publication
Image & Narrative, 2016, Vol 17, Issue 2, p24
- ISSN
1780-678X
- Publication type
Article