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An Interview with China Miéville

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An Interview with China Miéville

Tranter, Kirsten.
Contemporary Literature , Volume 53 (3) – Nov 13, 2012
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an interview with ´ CHINA MIEVILLE Conducted by Kirsten Tranter cholars entering the British Library in China Mieville's ´ novel Kraken (2010) might be alarmed by the large number of black cats outside the building. They seem to be gathering--marching, perhaps--with intent, while clouds of sparrows circle overhead in spookily deliberate formations. These are not stray animals but rather a crowd of familiars, the animals who serve London's occult magicians; they are striking to protest their working conditions, led by an animate ancient Egyptian clay figurine. Onboard the pirate city of Armada--comprised of thousands of commandeered vessels lashed together into a floating conglomeration--a young woman pauses in her work at the library, searching for coal to feed the combustion engine that has been grafted onto her amputated legs as punishment for some obscure crime, in The Scar (2002). On a distant planet, far, far away, an alien creature with multiple eyes and two mouths struggles to say something that isn't true, a formulation impossible within its unique language. A desperate human tries to teach it the idea of metaphor, in Embassytown (2011). Welcome to the strange world of China Mieville, one of the ´ U.K.'s most original and

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Published: Nov 13, 2012

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