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Lädt ... Embassytown (Original 2011; 2011. Auflage)von China Miéville
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Readers who want to delve no further than turning the pages will come away satisfied with "Embassytown," because Mieville's fertile imagination has created a fascinating alien species to go along with plenty of familiar human drama. It is a miracle of a novel, one where Big Ideas cohabitate with Monsters, and neither is lessened by what academic propriety insists must be capital letters. Miéville has a muscular intellect, successfully building a science fictional world around semiotics. For some readers, that will be enough. I don’t hold this will to abstraction against him. Genre writers, and for that matter writers of the well-wrought middlebrow novel, mostly tell the usual stories in the usual way: narrative and character are advanced through conventional action. Miéville is up to something else. In this sense, Embassytown plays out as a novel of metropolitan-colonial conflict, holding out the hope that language might not serve only as a tool of oppression, but be reclaimed as the instrument that makes resistance possible. Hat ein Nachschlage- oder BegleitwerkAuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers-AutorChina Miévilles Buch Embassytown wurde im Frührezensenten-Programm LibraryThing Early Reviewers angeboten. Aktuelle DiskussionenKeineBeliebte Umschlagbilder
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I'm not very sure if I completely understood this book. This might well have something to do with the problem I've mentioned above. Though I suspect that it isn't always easy to make a picture of this sci-fi world of china mieville. Since language is an essential part of this novel it becomes a map of the story too. ( )