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Station Eleven Textual Analysis Thread
A place to discuss anything related to the VCE English text 'Station Eleven' by Emily St John Mandel
St John Mandel, Emily, Station Eleven, Picador, 2014 (2)
Winner of the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, Mandel’s fourth novel presents a non-linear narrative that carries the reader on a journey encompassing life before and after the end of civilisation. Celebrated for its visually stunning prose and sense of hope for the survival of modern culture, this apocalyptic novel gives the reader a different take on the apocalyptic genre.
On the same night an actor dies in the midst of a stage performance of King Lear, the deadly Georgia Flu eradicates much of the world’s population, with only a few survivors. Each of the characters whose lives are cleverly developed before and after the flu are connected intricately by their own pasts as they build new lives for themselves after the collapse of civilisation. Focusing on the concepts of memory, loss and nostalgia, Mandel’s novel stands by the premise, ‘The more you remember, the more you’ve lost.’[/size]