Character Intersections: A Station Eleven Analysis

Character Intersections: A Station Eleven Analysis

Station eleven is an audacious, darkly glittering novel (Mandel, 2016) that is about art, ambitions and fame that is set in the eerie days of civilization collapse, from the author of the three highly acclaimed previous novels. The novel is written by Emily St. John Mandel. On one snowy night of a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies on the stage during the production of the film king Lear. Some hours later, the world as it is known begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in the time from the actors early days of the film star…