![]() ![]() This is not to say that the architectural complexity of Mitchell's novels is without certain risks. His tricky formal structures can be accurately described as innovative, but they're neither new nor especially rare. And we live in a golden age of jumbled storytelling on the big screen, from Rashomon and Memento to Babel and, yes, Cloud Atlas, based on Mitchell's 2004 best seller. Just last year, Doctor Who celebrated its 50th anniversary. Hello! Time travel has been a treasured literary trope from H.G. A lot of attention, probably too much, has been paid to the fact that the English novelist David Mitchell has a penchant for non-linear narratives that zigzag through time and space, which allegedly make his books - including his latest cosmic puddle-jumper, The Bone Clocks - dauntingly difficult to read. ![]()
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