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From Words to Images: A Comparison of Paul Auster’s City of Glass and Its Graphic Novel Adaptation

From Words to Images: A Comparison of Paul Auster’s City of Glass and Its Graphic Novel Adaptation

Paul Auster’s novel, City of Glass, fabricates a world in which appearances often fail to correspond to reality and the readers can be as confused and bewildered as the characters in the novel. To adapt City of Glass into a graphic novel, where images on every panel supplement a significantly-reduced amount of text, constitutes a considerable challenge.

Image from Pixabay.com, licensed CC0

Sylvia Plath: The Devil and The White Macaw

Sylvia Plath’s Esther Greenwood has a complex understanding of her enlivened friend Doreen, which makes her long for a similarly spirited disposition. Esther’s existence is instead confined by the ever-present thoughts of death plaguing her mind.