Graduate Exhibition

In 'Bravura', the story ends the same way it begins. There are no villains to be destroyed, no dragons to be slayed. There is a girl, and she’s in trouble. Only, she caused that trouble. 'Bravura' is a novella that examines and deconstructs typical tropes and literary techniques found in young adult literature. Alexandra Bruderlin explores themes of girlhood, mental illness and the fragility of memory, with allusions to Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland stories. 'Bravura' embodies Alexandra’s love of experimental writing, the complexity of the human memory, coming-of-age tales, and the idea that very few things can end as neatly as ‘happily ever after’.