- Title
- The uncanny lurch in Shaun Tan's The Viewer and The Lost Thing
- Creator
- Mills, Alice
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/36935
- Identifier
- vital:624
- Identifier
- ISSN:1443-5373
- Abstract
- Shaun Tan's picture story books, The Viewer (with verbal text by Gary Crew) and The Lost Thing explore the theme of lostness in a city landscape. Both picture story books can be read as tales of extraordinary, lost individuals who are different from everyone around them and suffer as a result. The story of The Viewer concerns the baby Tristan who grows up to become a teenager obsessive about collecting items from the rubbish dump; in all probability he ends up in a kind of living death, immured in the Viewer machine that he has salvaged from the dump. In The Lost Thing, the boy narrator finds a peculiar being, a lost thing for whom he eventually locates a better place among others somewhat like it; but, as the verbal text comments, none of these strange beings really belongs there. The lost thing's condition has improved by the end of the story but it is still in some sense lost.; C1
- Publisher
- Lindfield UTS: Centre for Research and Education in the Arts
- Relation
- CREArTA Vol. 6, no. (2006), p. 64-74
- Rights
- Copyright CREArTA
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 19 Studies In Creative Arts and Writing; 2005 Literary Studies; Picture story book; Shaun Tan; The Lost Thing; The Viewer
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