(DOWNLOAD) "China Mieville's Imagination (Arts and Culture) (Essay)" by Arena Magazine # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: China Mieville's Imagination (Arts and Culture) (Essay)
- Author : Arena Magazine
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Reference,Books,Politics & Current Events,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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At odd moments and in odd places I have begun to feel as though I am in the world created by the novels and short stories of China Mieville. The first came with the overgrown canal boats and barges in the Zeeburgedijk district of Amsterdam. In the city of my parents, I sat and looked over yet one more canal. In the midst of the endless collection of skiffs, barges, houseboats, water-taxis, and other watercraft that I can't name, three or four canal boats stood out. Rather than the occasional small window box or pot with herbs and flowers in a corner on the deck, they were over-run with grass, flowers, small trees, vines and vegetables, covering what might have once been the sleeping quarters of a houseboat, or perhaps a mast. 'Armada', I realised: here were the first signs of the city of boats and ships, chained together for centuries, growing, changing, but always moving with the tides and the tugs, the renegade city that was half-legend, half-reality in Mieville's The Scar(Pan Macmillan 2002).
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