He tries not to salt his books with references to cultural artifacts that might freeze the narrative in time.
Civil rights era photographs figured in her thinking, though she also wondered how these images – which played an important role in raising public awareness of the injustices and violence of the era – could freeze the narrative, even literally.
Time seems frozen, the action suspended, the narrative of the picture arrested.
Frozen by the novel's narrative elements, I'll take a side door and discuss form, namely what Jon discussed last Monday when he wrote about Jonathan Franzen's decision to devote a large section of the novel to the supposed autobiography of Patty Berglund, one half of the novel's central couple.
His major orchestral pieces — "Thus Saw Saint John," the "Solar Trilogy," a First Symphony subtitled "Rejoicing from the Heavens, Grieving Unto Death" — unfold hypnotically wayward narratives that reel from antic joy to frozen despair.
To younger generations who never had such jobs, who had only the mythology of such jobs (rather a whimsical snapshot of the 1950s frozen in time by America's ideology) this part of the narrative is clear.
The composition is not narrative but rather forms the context of a sole figure, frozen in a pose of profound preoccupation.
Tracing a former detective's complicated quest to solve a very cold case indeed, its narrative eventually freezes into impenetrability, but it's an alluring void.
Chewing the fat Like-minded fellows Indian contemporary art Reprints Related items Sweden leans left again: Trouble at homeJan 21st 2010This frozen panorama is the door to a bloody crime, and to a far broader narrative.
The narrative centres on the intersection of Toshiko's romance with Tommy Brockless Anthony Lewiss), a cryogenically frozen soldier from World War I, and a number of hazardous time slips from 1918.
