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Kimmich, Matt. "Disorienting Visualisations: Adapting Paul Auster’s City of Glass." Mediality/Intermediality. Eds. Martin Heusser, Andreas Fischer and Andreas H. Jucker. Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2008. 87–104. Added by: joachim (12/2/10, 1:42 PM) |
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| Resource type: Book Chapter Language: en: English BibTeX citation key: Kimmich2008 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "City of Glass", Adaptation, Auster. Paul, Karasik. Paul, Literature, Mazzucchelli. David Creators: Fischer, Heusser, Jucker, Kimmich Publisher: Gunter Narr (Tübingen) Collection: Mediality/Intermediality |
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The universe of Paul Austers City of Glass, a metafictional detective story, is primarily textual in nature; nevertheless, this novel was chosen to be translated into comic book form by David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik. In his introduction to the graphic novel, Art Spiegelman writes: “City of Glass is a surprisingly nonvisual work at its core, a complex web of words and abstract ideas in playfully shifiting narrative styles.” Translating a verbal narrative into a visual narrative is always a challenging task, and too often visual adaptations ‒ whether films or comic books ‒ end up as little more than simplified retellings of plots. Critics agreed, however, that Mazzucchelli and Karasik succeeded in crafting a translation that captures the crystalline quality of Auster’s narrative, yet also adds new resonances to a story concerned with the limits of language in representing adequately an individual’s reality and identity. This paper examines the visual techniques used to translate and elaborate on Auster’s textual universe.
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