Short Fiction · Character

The Artist

A creative figure whose perspective drives a narrative.

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The Artist shows up with force in IV. The page is where that presence becomes real.

The narrator, likely an artist or performer, experiences a sudden emotional breakdown after a successful performance.

The Artist first appears in 0001 short fiction.

In IV: The narrator, likely an artist or performer, experiences a sudden emotional breakdown after a successful performance.

Later, in III: The narrator, who experiences a hallucinatory crisis by the water and flees with a maniac.

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IV
The narrator, likely an artist or performer, experiences a sudden emotional breakdown after a successful performance.
III
The narrator, who experiences a hallucinatory crisis by the water and flees with a maniac.
Fragment IX
The narrator, a legless war veteran, experiences dissociative horror as his hand dances uncontrollably while trying to write, revealing deep psychological trauma.
Fragment X
The narrator's brother, a legless and palsied veteran who died after two months of obsessive, senseless writing.
Fragment XV
The narrator experiencing the dream; his bared brain suffers with all mankind.
VII
The narrator's own portrait, referred to as 'my unknown friend and roommate,' is imagined to speak reproachfully to Jesus.

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