The tattooed man ray bradbury7/4/2023 ![]() While the cover of the first edition only hints at nudity and tattoos, by the second edition, the art more closely resembled popular pulp fiction illustrations of the time-a format where many of these stories had been previously published-and featured the back of a seated, nude, fully tattooed man. Not only was it an original premise for the time but having a fully tattooed person on the book cover would have been titillating for many Americans. However, Bradbury’s use of tattoos as literary device was a new and unique twist in this storytelling tradition. Many of the stories selected for The Illustrated Man had been previously published and needed such a device to link them into a single compendium. From Shahrazad in One Thousand and One Nights to Crypt Keeper in Tales from the Crypt, authors have used a mysterious storyteller to set the stage for loosely connected short stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ray Bradbury’s use of the Illustrated Man is a literary device common throughout history. ![]()
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