![]() ![]() ![]() The word “camel” is letters written down in a certain combination – and does not look like, nor is, the thing that is a camel. The basic premise of the novel is this: language – the words we have – are concepts, not meant to literally be the things they represent. It will stay with you and puzzle and please you long after you have put it down. ![]() Some novels are easily read and quickly forgotten. You have to really pay attention while you read it, and learn – as the characters in the book do – the new language presented to you. I have never read anything like it, and neither have I ever encountered the premise, setting, plot or the words Miéville invented for this novel. It is set in a comprehensive, holistic, entirely new created world. This is a New Weird novel/thriller/sociological discourse (?) about Linguistics in society, or to be more precise – Semiotics – and even though I have a MA degree in the subject, it really intrigued and challenged me. Embassytown, by China Miéville (US publication: Random House Inc., 2011 Del Rey Books Trade Paperback Edition 2012) ![]()
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