Top 10 buildings in fiction
Given by The Guardian
10 Works 210,763 Books 3,359 Reviews 4.2
Rather as everybody supposedly thinks they have a book in them, I wonder if every novelist thinks their mind holds unbuilt architecture. I know I do. Not the technical stuff, obviously. The show more trigonometry and structural engineering. I mean the exciting freehand sketching bit at the start. The dreaming into existence of a building that didn’t exist before.
Of course, conjuring fictional structures on the page is about a lot more than simply satisfying unrealised ambitions: buildings have done an awful lot of work in many a fiction, shaping and expressing characters’ lives, concretising themes, rooting narratives in time and place.
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Here are some of my favourites.
David Annand – LT author page show less
Of course, conjuring fictional structures on the page is about a lot more than simply satisfying unrealised ambitions: buildings have done an awful lot of work in many a fiction, shaping and expressing characters’ lives, concretising themes, rooting narratives in time and place.
[...]
Here are some of my favourites.
David Annand – LT author page show less
Work | Order Label |
---|---|
Howards End (1910) by E. M. Forster | 1 |
High-Rise (1975) by J. G. Ballard | 2 |
The Fountainhead (1943) by Ayn Rand The Cortlandt housing project | 3 |
A House for Mr Biswas (1961) by V. S. Naipaul Mr Biswas's house | 4 |
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen Pemberley | 5 |
The Castle (1925) by Franz Kafka | 6 |
1984 (1949) by George Orwell The Ministry of Love | 7 |
Life: A User's Manual (1978) by Georges Perec 11 rue Simon-Crubellier | 8 |
The Library of Babel [short story] (1941) by Jorge Luis Borges | 9 |
The Spire (1964) by William Golding The Cathedral | 10 |
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