Winner of the 2007 German Book Prize, her novel brings together the haunting folk echoes of Dinesen's "Winter's Tales," the visual immediacy of Isherwood's "Goodbye to Berlin," the narrative cohesion of Mann's "Buddenbrooks".
Trip tales with visuals rank right up there with stories of grandchildren and hospital stays with H.M.O.
Ocean has honed his cinematic eye for story here, telling complex, visual tales through a variety of narrators.
He was a fearless designer who could take a set of disparate images, edit and build them into a deft, simply told visual tale.
It's a visual tale of oral history, an allegory that cuts both ways: even as the segregation of women on Themyscira sends Diana into the world with a narrowed view of humankind, male-dominated human society at large, which keeps women largely out of power and cultural authority, keeps itself stultified, blinded, ignorant, oppressive, violent, warmongering.
Likening the book with a computer game, the reviewer concluded that "one of the remarkable qualities of [the book] is that it is a very visual tale and less like a literary exercise".
Today, at 80 years old, the artist is known worldwide for her spellbinding visual tales, weaved together from scraps of religious texts, fairy tales, myths, picture books, sexual fantasies and other abnormal manifestations.
Over five scenes Mr. Wilson presents the story in a number of subtly different incarnations, sometimes juxtaposing a slightly bathetic modern take on the tale with a contrasting visual grandeur, evoked in part through the simple, sculptural lines of chairs, a long table and a cloaklike net cage.
Both companies were hired by the Lincoln Center Festival in an unusual multipronged campaign for "Monkey," a production based on a classic Chinese tale with music and visuals by the creators of the virtual band Gorillaz.
While "The Tomorrow People" clearly isn't reinventing the wheel, it offers a sleek, confident update to a familiar tale, complete with dazzling visuals that wouldn't look out of place in a blockbuster.
