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Un Lun Dun de China Miéville

Un Lun Dun

Autor China Miéville
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mai 2011

Ritmul acestui roman este unul exuberant, o succesiune rapidă de invenții vizuale care transformă familiarul în bizar. În Un Lun Dun, China Mieville ne propune o explorare a imaginarului urban, unde metropola londoneză se răsfrânge într-o dimensiune paralelă a lucrurilor uitate. Găsim în această carte o lume în care umbrelele abandonate devin creaturi pășitoare, iar girafle carnivore cutreieră străzi pavate cu resturi ale civilizației noastre. Lectura se simte ca o descindere într-un „Wonderland” industrial, unde logica basmului este constant subminată de umor și de o estetică a deșeului transformat în magie. Reținem în mod deosebit felul în care autorul se joacă cu tropii literaturii fantastice: eroina aleasă nu urmează întotdeauna calea prevăzută de „cartea magică”, iar asistenții săi — de la un băiat pe jumătate fantomă la un ambalaj de lapte — aduc o notă de prospețime și fragilitate narațiunii. Din punct de vedere stilistic, proza este densă, dar accesibilă, scrisă într-o limbă engleză inventivă care dă viață unor concepte precum norul de smog conștient. Un Lun Dun amintește de The City's Son de Tom Pollock prin modul în care mitologizează spațiul urban ascuns sub cel cotidian, dar se diferențiază prin tonul său mult mai ludic și prin refuzul de a adopta structura clasică a „călătoriei eroului”, preferând în schimb o deconstrucție inteligentă a clișeelor genului Young Adult.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780330536684
ISBN-10: 0330536680
Pagini: 528
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 196 x 128 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Pan Macmillan

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care caută o alternativă la fantezia clasică, acest roman oferă un univers urban unic, construit din resturile realității noastre. Este o lectură ideală pentru cei care apreciază creativitatea debordantă a lui China Miéville și vor să descopere cum o poveste despre salvarea unui oraș poate fi în același timp o critică subtilă a clișeelor literare. Câștigător al premiului Locus, volumul captivează prin originalitatea personajelor și atmosfera sa stranie.

Descriere

The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster. The room grew darker. As the light lessened, so did the sound. Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder. The noise of the cars and vans and motorbikes outside grew tinny . . . The wheel turned off all the cars and turned off all the lamps. It was turning off London. Zanna and Deeba are two girls leading ordinary lives, until they stumble into the world of UnLondon, an urban Wonderland where all the lost and broken things of London end up . . . and some of its lost and broken people too. Here discarded umbrellas stalk with spidery menace, carnivorous giraffes roam the streets, and a jungle sprawls beyond the door of an ordinary house. UnLondon is under siege by the sinister Smog and its stink-junkie slaves; it is a city awaiting its hero. Guided by a magic book that can't quite get its facts straight, and pursued by Hemi the half-ghost boy, the girls set out to stop the poisonous cloud before it burns everything in its path. They are joined in their quest by a motley band of UnLondon locals, including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas, Obaday Fing, a couturier whose head is an enormous pincushion, and an empty milk carton called Curdle. Winner of the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book, China Miéville's Un Lun Dun is an extraordinary vivid creation;is populated by astonishing frights and delights that will thrill the imagination.

Notă biografică

China Miéville lives and works in London. He is three-time winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award (Perdido Street Station, Iron Council and The City & The City) and has also won the British Fantasy Award twice (Perdido Street Station and The Scar). The City & The City, an existential thriller, was published in 2009 to dazzling critical acclaim and drew comparison with the works of Kafka and Orwell (The Times) and Philip K. Dick (Guardian). The richly imagined Bas-Lag world is the setting for the novels Perdido Street Station, The Scar and Iron Council. He is also the author of the YA novel, Railsea. He lives and works in London.

Extras

1

The Respectful Fox

There was no doubt about it: there was a fox behind the climbing frame. And it was watching.

“It is, isn’t it?”

The playground was full of children, their gray uniforms flapping as they ran and kicked balls into makeshift goals. Amid the shouting and the games, a few girls were watching the fox.

“It definitely is. It’s just watching us,” a tall blond girl said. She could see the animal clearly behind a fringe of grass and thistle. “Why isn’t it moving?” She walked slowly towards it.



At first the friends had thought the animal was a dog, and had started ambling towards it while they chatted. But halfway across the tarmac they had realized it was a fox.

It was a cold cloudless autumn morning and the sun was bright. None of them could quite believe what they were seeing. The fox kept standing still as they approached.

“I saw one once before,” whispered Kath, shifting her bag from shoulder to shoulder. “I was with my dad by the canal. He told me there’s loads in London now, but you don’t normally see them.”

“It should be running,” said Keisha, anxiously. “I’m staying here. That’s got teeth.”

“All the better to eat you with,” said Deeba.

“That was a wolf,” said Kath.

Kath and Keisha held back: Zanna, the blond girl, slowly approached the fox, with Deeba, as usual, by her side. They got closer, expecting it to arch into one of those beautiful curves of animal panic, and duck under the fence. It kept not doing so.

The girls had never seen any animal so still. It wasn’t that it wasn’t moving: it was furiously not-moving. By the time they got close to the climbing frame they were creeping exaggeratedly, like cartoon hunters.

The fox eyed Zanna’s outstretched hand politely. Deeba frowned.

“Yeah, it is watching,” Deeba said. “But not us. It’s watching you.”



Zanna—she hated her name Susanna, and she hated “Sue” even more—had moved to the estate about a year ago, and quickly made friends with Kath and Keisha and Becks and others. Especially Deeba. On her way to Kilburn Comprehensive, on her first day, Deeba had made Zanna laugh, which not many people could do. Since then, where Zanna was, Deeba tended to be too. There was something about Zanna that drew attention. She was decent-to-good at things like sports, schoolwork, dancing, whatever, but that wasn’t it: she did well enough to do well, but never enough to stand out. She was tall and striking, but she never played that up either: if anything, she seemed to try to stay in the background. But she never quite could. If she hadn’t been easy to get on with, that could have caused her trouble.

Sometimes even her mates were a little bit wary of Zanna, as if they weren’t quite sure how to deal with her. Even Deeba herself had to admit that Zanna could be a bit dreamy. Sometimes she would sort of zone out, staring skywards or losing the thread of what she was saying.

Just at that moment, however, she was concentrating hard on what Deeba had just said.



Zanna put her hands on her hips, and even her sudden movement didn’t make the fox jump.

“It’s true,” said Deeba. “It hasn’t taken its eyes off you.”

Zanna met the fox’s gentle vulpine gaze. All the girls watching, and the animal, seemed to get lost in something.

. . . Until their attention was interrupted by the bell for the end of break. The girls looked at each other, blinking.

The fox finally moved. Still looking at Zanna, it bowed its head. It did it once, then leapt up and was gone.

Deeba watched Zanna, and muttered, “This is just getting weird.”


From the Hardcover edition.

Recenzii

"Mieville's compelling heroine and her fantastical journey through the labyrinth of a strange London forms that rare book that feels instantly like a classic and yet is thoroughly modern."
— Holly Black, bestselling author of the YA novels TITHE and VALIANT

 
“A book which shows the world as it truly is: full of marvels and monsters and unexpected opportunities for heroism and magic. UN LUN DUN is delicious, twisty, ferocious fun, a book so crammed with inventions, delights, and unexpected turns that you will want to start reading it over again as soon as you've reached the end.”
— Kelly Link, author of STRANGER THINGS HAPPEN and MAGIC FOR BEGINNERS


From the Hardcover edition.