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Epigraph (What is it? (Appears on the first page of a novel, before the…
Epigraph
What is it?
Appears on the first page of a novel, before the action begins.
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Sometimes, an epigraph doesn’t make sense until you’ve read the book.
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Definition
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A short statement (a sentence, a paragraph, a poem) that comes at the beginning of a literary text, but the words belong to a different author. The epigraph is used to introduce the current literary text, and gives some clue as to its theme, or its connection to previous text.
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Why Authors use it ?
To place their work in dialogue with the work of a writer they respect, or whose work they see as being related to their own.
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Examples
BOOKS
At the beginning of The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway quotes Gertrude Stein: "You are all a lost generation."
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"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." — G.K. Chesterson
(from Coraline by Neil Gaiman)
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MOVIES
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"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."—Honor de Balzac (the epigraph to Mario Puzo's novel, The Godfather)
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