This page lists tropes of literary work Always Visible (Another Prayer for the Dying Horror Genre) by Russian author Vitaly Ivolginsky, starting with the letter G.
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Warning: detailed listing and analysis of tropes may partially or completely reveal the plot or other nuances. In addition, their number may be supplemented from time to time.
Denial of responsibility: possible strange language constructs are caused by translation from the author’s native language into English.
List of tropes
- Greater-Scope Villain: In Galbraith’s eyes, this is exactly how doctor Baselard.
- Gratuitous Latin: “Magistratus oportet servire populo” (The Police must serve The People).
- The Grotesque: The tumor that was removed from Delia’s uterus looked, according to Nelissen, like a sea urchin. Galbraith notes about himself that it was apparently red.
- The Generic Guy: Doctor Baselard is described as a simple and unremarkable guy who somehow incomprehensibly manages to fill vacant positions first in the hospital of Gloucester and then in Portland.
- Genre Shift: The original source was a story about a devil child. The work itself transforms this first into a drama about the suffering of a girl, then into a detective story about the investigation of her murder, and in the end it all ends with a fantastic story about virtual reality.
- Gender Flip: A psychic nanny named Josephine Thueson in “Always Visible” turns into the male culturologist Jordan Thurlow, Delia’s neighbor.
- God Is Evil: Unlike the film, there are no elements of Satanism, but there is Galbraith’s phrase that “God’s got a sick sense of humour” (which is a verbatim quote from Depeche Mode).