![THE BLUE AND THE WHITE VISUAL NARRATIVE IN STEVE ERICKSON’S DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS](/api/image/getissuecoverimage?id=picture_2016_29848.jpg)
THE BLUE AND THE WHITE VISUAL NARRATIVE IN STEVE ERICKSON’S DAYS BETWEEN STATIONS
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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