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Indlæser... The writer's map : an atlas of imaginary lands (original 2018; udgave 2018)af Huw Lewis-Jones
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Thank you to Hue Lewis-Jones, University of Chicago Press, and NetGalley for allowing me the extreme pleasure of access to an advanced reader copy of “The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands” for an honest review. I absolutely had to jump at the chance to request and review this book at the first glance of its title and synopsis. What could be better than a book of all the maps, both given to us, and inspired by, our favorite literary worlds? I was enamored from its first hint of existence, which made the experience transcendent once I received my copy. The pictures are gorgeous, colored copies, laid out well against the places they've come from (text of novels, and poems, and epics, and on). There are reflections by those still writing now (about their past, present, and current worlds) who were included, as well as pieces from earlier decades and writers who penned our favorite universes, and who gave birth to our dreams and nightmares. I recommend this to all people who love the magical lands we've traversed in our writing, and long to touch, just for a second, those worlds we've crossed and recrossed. This is a book that needs to be held with two hands. It’s a beautifully printed, heavy thing where the maps provide most of the value. The words (and their authors) are of variable quality, but oh! the maps. The maps printed are not only those from the authors' books, but cover much of printed literature and, indeed, map history. One such is a full page of colour from 1025. It’s printed opposite the map of the Isle of Berk from How to Train Your Dragon. I do think a tighter rein should have been held on the writing in some cases. It’s quite enlightening how many of the storytellers failed to tell a story! That really doesn’t detract from the whole, though; there are less interesting passages in almost every book, but here you can skip over the words while ogling the maps. I am so grateful that this book came to print. It’s a marvellous thing. En karta i en skönlitterär bok innebär vanligen att boken riktar sig till barn, eller att den innehåller fantastiska drag (ett tredje alternativ är att det är en detektivhistoria, men dessa kartor är i regel ganska skissartade). Det är alltså ett tecken att vi är på väg till en plats som knappt finns, eller kanske hellre som finns i särskilt potent form: en plats där underbara ting kommer utspela sig, där djur kan tala, ringar kan göra en osynlig och mattor kan flyga. Kartor är därför ett bra sätt att öka intresset. I den av Huw Lewis-Jones redigerade The writer's map förklarar författare och konstnärer varför just de älskar kartor som komplement till litteratur; essäerna täcker alla tänkbara världar: Midgård, Narnia, Sjumilaskogen, Mumindalen, Skattkammarön; platser att glädjas åt och återkomma till. Det är ingen dålig samling som medverkar: på omslaget står bland annat Philip Pullman, Lev Grossman och David Mitchell (författaren, inte komikern); andra har medverkat att skapa kartor och annan rekvisita för bland annat Sagan om Ringen och Harry Potter, eller illustrerat klassiker som Robinson Crusoe. Det är en på alla sätt trevlig bok: texterna är av ett lagom utmanande slag: de barndomsminnen som finns är ljusa, men inte heltigenom. Bildmaterialet är fantastiskt och blandar illustrationer av moderna verk med kartor så gamla att mycket på dem är fiktion. Precis som på en bra karta kan man gå vilse i fantasin, en kort stund eller en hel dag. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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"The Writer's Map is an atlas of the journeys that our most creative storytellers have made throughout their lives. This collection encompasses not only the maps that appear in their books but also the many maps that have inspired them, the sketches that they used while writing, and others that simply sparked their curiosity. " -- Publisher's description. No library descriptions found. |
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David Mitchell, Cressida Cowell, Joanne Harris
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." (84)
A map helps to make an imaginary place real. The more detail you put into your beautiful lie, and the more you base it on things that are true, the more it comes alive....The more the fantasy is rooted and anchored in time and space, the more believable it is. (Cowell, 85)
"...stories are maps...maps that can lead you anywhere..." (Harris, 110) ( )