

Loading... The Last Days of New Parisby China Miéville
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Books Read in 2016 (2,682) No current Talk conversations about this book. Me está costando la vida terminarlo, no me engancha nada... ( ![]() Graphic annotations of this book at : https://medium.com/@Nicky_Martin/graphic-annotations-of-china-mi%C3%A9villes-the... this is just lovely, if you surrender to it. Paris in and after the Second World War, as alternate universes are created, and collapse, in a street war between Nazi and resistance forces using art against the enemy. culture as a no man's land, where art and cultural ideas have the power to wound. i had to go away and reread a lot of surrealist manifestos and look at a whole lot of art afterwards, but how can that be a bad thing? Manifestations of surrealist imaginations roam the streets of a dystopian Paris, fighting Nazis and the occasional demon from hell. This is as enjoyable as it sounds and invokes further complexities over the political role of poetry/art and the collective mythology of a movement. (Be warned though that if you do not happen to know the quoted images of the respective manifestations this book, will be beyond weird) On the other hand (à plume) this novella has very shallow character development and beyond the (fantastic) general setting offers hardly any plot worth mentioning. The appearance of the manifs quickly begins to feel a bit gimmicky and half of the book I spent wondering about the references rather than about what was going on... I was also a bit annoyed about the below-auto-translate-quality of all the German phrases. Great idea, fun to read but don't expect anything too deep. no reviews | add a review
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