“David Mitchell: from Cloud Atlas to musical utopia”
What can a novel about London's music scene in the 1960s possibly have to do with fantasy? Well, more than you might think at first sight, at least in the hands of David Mitchell, a British author who has published a number of books, including Cloud Atlas, a fascinating accumulation of stories (science fiction, dystopian, love stories) almost imperceptibly linked together like a mosaic and made into a successful film by the Wachowski sisters. However, in Utopia Avenue, Mitchell recreates the story of a fictional music group. The protagonists have imaginary conversations with the great musicians and artists of the time who were in London, including David Bowie and Francis Bacon, and whose presence adds a fantasy element to the story. One of the protagonists, Jasper, is a schizophrenic musician who hears a variety of voices in his head. And these voices open up another door connecting this novel with the fantasy genre.
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