![]() ![]() Jean-Luc Nancy claims that there is no being without “being-with”, no existence without coexistence which resonates with Ihab Hassan’s reasoning on a necessity to establish a sense of planetary civility grounded on truth and trust in order to emancipate from postmodern fallout or the “clash of civilizations” that resulted in tribalism and fundamentalism. The characters are bound to each other through the past, the present and the future. The symbol of a comet-shaped birthmark symbolizes a cyclical return of the soul, which incarnates into different characters throughout different historical epochs. ![]() The time transcending soul’s journey and human coexistence conveyed through the symbol of a comet-shaped birthmark is explored with the novel’s embedded narrative structure making it an ontological grand narrative, a term introduced by Jean-François Lyotard to define a unique kind of metanarrative which “sees” an inner connection between events related to one another. Therefore the object of this BA paper is the novel’s embedded narrative structure and its major themes of rebirth and predacity with relation to the contemporary aesthetic and cultural mentality beyond postmodernism. David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas (2004) explores the intricacies of time-transcending human connections by introducing six seemingly unrelated narratives in a recursive, multi-layered narrative structure. ![]()
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