Where is Shakespeare hidden in Anne’s story?
Alas, poor Yorick!
Mr. Quirk recites Hamlet in Book One, Chapter 1
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Meet the Illustrator
Diana Naneva is a young illustrator and comic artist. She was born in Varna. She is the author of Ghost Instrumentarium and Escape Season, and the illustrator of the anniversary edition of Yan Bibiyan.
Hidden Between the Lines
Where does Plato echo through Anne’s tale?
Man: an intelligent, two-legged creature without feathers.
Plato’s “featherless bipeds” appear in Book One, Chapter 21.
Where does Anne’s story echo Dostoevsky?
Even the greatest ideal cannot justify the tears of a single child.
It’s the Queen Mother who echoes Ivan Karamazov — Book One, Chapter 19.
Where does Charlie Chaplin “appear” in Anne’s story?
We built the most perfect machines — and began turning into machines ourselves.
In Book One, Chapter 20, the Queen Mother’s final words echo Chaplin’s famous monologue from
The Great Dictator.
The Great Dictator.
