The Last Days of New Paris

Posted on 19 November 2018 by China Miéville

Beauty will be convulsive It s 1941 In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer and occult disciple Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti Nazi group, including surrealist theorist Andr Breton In the strange games of the dissident diplomats, exiled revolutionaries, and avant garde artists, Parsons finds and channels hope But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares, changing the war and the world forever.It s 1950 A lone surrealist fighter, Thibaut, walks a new, hallucinogenic Paris, where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict, and the streets are stalked by living images and texts and by the forces of hell To escape the city, he must join forces with Sam, an American photographer intent on recording the ruins, and make common cause with a powerful, enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion the exquisite corpse.But Sam is being hunted And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties to each other, to Paris old and new, and to reality itself. Download The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville – kino-fada.fr Literary Dali.Magritte in manuscript.China Mieville throws an S bomb surrealist blast into an alternate history Nazi occupied Paris and all hell breaks loose.You re a weird one Mr Mieville and that s a big reason why we love you.Taking pages from his Embassytown and The City the City play books, Mieville hits a homerun and provides a clear demonstration of his talent in this sparklingly unorthodox 2016 publication.The Nazis are still alive and kicking and occupying Paris in 1950 But Literary Dali.Magritte in manuscript.China Mieville throws an S bomb surrealist blast into an alternate history Nazi occupied Paris and all hell breaks loose.You re a weird one Mr Mieville and that s a big reason why we love you.Taking pages from his Embassytown and The City the City play books, Mieville hits a homerun and provides a clear demonstration of his talent in this sparklingly unorthodox 2016 publication.The Nazis are still alive and kicking and occupying Paris in 1950 But this is a far different Paris than the City of Lights we know After an S Blast , a surrealistic nightmare has mutated the city and sparked a cordoning off by the occupying Nazis The partisans and freedom fighters left within must also deal with the...Can living artwork die Can it live before it diesChina Mi ville, The Last Days of New ParisAs a reader who is drawn to art as much as to books, Mi ville novella came as a messy, strange treat The concept is relatively simple Imagine a New Paris transformed in 1941, by virtue of an occultish weapon to fight the Nazis, into a ghetto where Nazi s and French Resistance continue their battles into the 50s along side Su...I m not sure wtf I just read and on what shelf I should put this but I liked it a lot Any book that has sentient piece of surreal art fighting nazi made demon can t be bad Of course this is China Mieville so this is very weird, well written with some very cleaver moments and ideas.Actual review might come if I ever figure out what to say and how to say it but I do have strong opinion about this For now if you are fan of his works that this is must read and if y...Surrealism Made ManifestThe photo on the cover shows a view of the Eiffel Tower with the lower part obscured by mist A picturesque scene but no, in China Mi ville s alternate reality novella, the lower part of the tower really is not there the pinnacle floats on its own in mid air Jags of ruin, a fallen outline Framed against the flat bright sky to the north east, the Eiffel Tower looms The tower s steepling top half dangles where it has always been, where the Pont d I na meets the Quai Surrealism Made ManifestThe photo on the cover shows a view of the Eiffel Tower with the lower part obscured by mist A picturesque scene but no, in China Mi ville s alternate reality novella, the lower part of the tower really is not there the pinnacle floats on its own in mid air Jags of ruin, a fallen outline Framed against the flat bright sky to the north east, the Eiffel Tower looms...The author belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird Nuff said He had me at surrealist bomb Seriously, in an excellent Joan Gordon interview the author said I don t start with the graph paper and the calculators like a particular kind of DD dungeonmaster I start with an image, as unreal and affecting as possible, just like the Surrealists But then I systematize it, and move into a different kind of tradition That s the sf concern for internal cognitive rigor, The author belongs to a loose group of writers som...If you ever wanted to read a book about a guy smelling his own farts for 160 pages, this one s for you Ohh fart , I m fart China fart Mieville and, oooh fart I know sooooo fart much fart about fart Surrealism FAAAAARRRRTTT Surrealistic art comes to life and starts attacking Nazis in WW2 in China Mieville s The Last Days of New Paris That s both the premise and the plot of this steaming pile of book This is partly my fau...Read for book club although, again, I didn t make the meeting , and also because I m a fan Unfortunately, this summoned up less enthusiasm in me than anything I ve read from Mi ville recently I d been really, really hoping that this would be set in the same world as This Census Taker, but alas, it is unrelated The concept is clever perhaps a bit too cute but I didn t feel that the story and characters lived up to it It seemed that the idea came first, not a burning need to Read for book club although, again, I didn t make the meeting , and also because I m a fan Unfortunately, this summoned up less enthusiasm in me than anything I ve read from Mi ville recently I d been really, really hoping that this would be set in the same world as This Census Taker, but alas, it is unrelated The concept is clever perhaps a bit too cute but I didn t feel that the story and characters lived up to it It seemed that the idea came first, not a burning need to illustrate this particular story or a desire to bring these characters to life The idea is that in WWII Paris, a devastating S Blast occurred which changed everything, apocalyptically The S in S Blast stands for Surrealism, and what the event did was the bring all manner of creatures and concepts previous...This is a very unique and interesting story I have not read anything like this before, it was weird but very good The idea of using surrealistic art as weapon was mind boggling The hardest part was just going with the flow of the story instead o...I think the big appeal of Mi ville is his boundless imagination He s come up with many highly original premises for books Where he tends to fall down is crafting characters that feel real and that the reader can invest in Unfortunately, The Last Days of New Paris falls into this trap In addition, being a novella rather than a full length novel, it becomesof an imaginative premise than a full and fulfilling story.My opinions on Mi ville have run the gamut Five stars for Kraken, three I think the big appeal of Mi ville is his boundless imagination He s come up with many highly original premises for books Where he tends to fall down is crafting characters that feel real and that th...3 and a half stars, rounded up.If you have read anything by Mieville before, I don t need to tell you the man s brain is a very strange place indeed, and that his intelligence and boundless imagination create the most fascinating and baroque worlds and stories I ve ever had the pleasure of reading This short novel blends tales of occultism and WWI...

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19 November 2018

China Miéville