Staging a (fictional) encounter between two artworks, work on paper by Indian artist Nalini Malani and the novel No Friend but Mountains Iranian-Kuridsh writer Behrouz Boochani, text—an essay, rather than traditional scholarly article—peruses paradoxes of representing what cannot must be (re-)presented. Issues such as required modesty in face suffering others, irrepresentability trauma intermed...

The article provides a comparative study of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “Never Let Me Go” and its film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek. analysis is made in the context theory intermediality, which involves interpenetration various forms information transmission. According to modern views on intermediality (I. Rajevsky, L. Elleström) it has been established that screen belongs “medial transpositi...