Throughout the course of this class and the novels we have read, I noticed a recurring theme among the experimental techniques used by the novels’ authors. It stemmed from the questions asked in class-how is this novel experimental? How is this other novel also experimental, and how do the experimental techniques differ from of complement […]
After analyzing this novel, it is evident many parallels can be drawn between Christopher from The Tattooed Map and Mersault from The Stranger by Albert Camus. While the two authors are nothing alike in philosophical backgrounds (Camus considered himself to be an “absurdist” which is very close in meaning to an existentialist) each has produced a character that […]
Our group was fortunate in the line up of projects with book subjects. It’s actually a lot more difficult to pinpoint projects that did not lend themselves to highlighting and analyzing thematic aspects of their literary counterparts. Specifically, I’d like to explore how the following projects worked and did not: House of Leaves as a […]
Major literary themes in The Tattooed Map are assumed to be travel, self discovery, and relationships but there is another theme encompassing the story in it’s entirety. Transformation of the human body is found throughout many genres including mythology, fairy tales and fantasy but is not as common in fiction; because of the experimental nature of the […]
In Chris’s continuation of Lydia’s journal, he records that he can suddenly see the map tattoo in Lydia’s photographs of her arm after having read an account of a man (who we understand to be Layesh) with a map tattoo growing on his own arm. Chris wonders, “Has something happened to the photographs, or to […]
Christopher and Lydia express that they were once lovers but no longer are which leads some readers to wonder why they still travel together. Lydia has complaints about Christopher but can also see the purpose for those traits in other situations, such as his inability to go up and speak with people or how he can […]