
China Miéville in conversation with The White Review
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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The Difference Between a Dragon in an Allegory and a Dragon in a Fantasy Novel
Er, one of t things that strikes me aboutu is that although you describe these extraordinarily fantastic worlds, in many cases, the actual physical descriptions of objects or beings are incredibly a concrete. And i wonder if that is a way of trying to bridge that gap between semthinly creating somethingwhich is fantastic, but doesn't necessarily feel like it has its own reality. That's a really interesting question. Er, i agree with you. I think, i mean, part ofyou need a kind of banality of the fantastic. You need a certain roundiness, otherwise you are aware that all your reading is a symbol and and a kind of a, you knowan allegory e,
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