THE BLUE AND THE WHITE VISUAL NARRATIVE IN STEVE ERICKSON’S DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS
THE BLUE AND THE WHITE VISUAL NARRATIVE IN STEVE ERICKSON’S DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS

Summary/Abstract: In Days Between Stations (1985), Steve Erickson blends intricate love stories across the twentieth century and beyond. His characters emerge from amnesiac dreams and roam in a world which falls apart. Strange natural phenomena occur. Yet it is notsci-fi, but an idiosyncratic literature where one can read minds through landscape and colours. Written in a romantic vein, Erickson’s novel deploys a plethora of Pop Art tropes and acommodates García Márquez-like narrative means to build up a political allegory. In my paper I tackle aesthetic and epistemological issues and try to find Steve Erickson’s place among contemporary writers.

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