Comments on: “Partition” by W. H. Auden http://markcnewton.com/2009/05/11/partition-by-w-h-auden/ Wed, 23 May 2012 18:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Alex Carnegie http://markcnewton.com/2009/05/11/partition-by-w-h-auden/comment-page-1/#comment-797 Alex Carnegie Thu, 14 May 2009 12:12:27 +0000 http://blog.markcnewton.com/?p=869#comment-797 Probably not, although I did manage to work some references to his essay 'The Quantum Vampire' into a piece about the supernatural in Victorian & Modernist literature... Re. 'The City & The City' - I finished it a while ago actually, steamed through it really. It wasn't my cup of tea to be entirely honest (felt the characterisation was a little flat and that things like that and the plot played second fiddle to the central conceit of the two-cities-in-one - quite Borgesian in that sense) but I could appreciate what he was doing with it. Good on him for trying something new really, and the book's a reminder that he's not just "that Bas Lag guy". Probably not, although I did manage to work some references to his essay ‘The Quantum Vampire’ into a piece about the supernatural in Victorian & Modernist literature…

Re. ‘The City & The City’ – I finished it a while ago actually, steamed through it really. It wasn’t my cup of tea to be entirely honest (felt the characterisation was a little flat and that things like that and the plot played second fiddle to the central conceit of the two-cities-in-one – quite Borgesian in that sense) but I could appreciate what he was doing with it. Good on him for trying something new really, and the book’s a reminder that he’s not just “that Bas Lag guy”.

]]> By: Mark C Newton http://markcnewton.com/2009/05/11/partition-by-w-h-auden/comment-page-1/#comment-795 Mark C Newton Wed, 13 May 2009 19:53:52 +0000 http://blog.markcnewton.com/?p=869#comment-795 Oh, that's cool. So can you work China's book into that? (How's it reading, btw?) Oh, that’s cool. So can you work China’s book into that? (How’s it reading, btw?)

]]> By: Alex Carnegie http://markcnewton.com/2009/05/11/partition-by-w-h-auden/comment-page-1/#comment-790 Alex Carnegie Tue, 12 May 2009 09:19:52 +0000 http://blog.markcnewton.com/?p=869#comment-790 Hugely topical for me as I'm currently in the middle of writing a final year essay on literary representations of Partition! 'The City & The City' keeps coming to mind when I'm working on it as well. Hugely topical for me as I’m currently in the middle of writing a final year essay on literary representations of Partition! ‘The City & The City’ keeps coming to mind when I’m working on it as well.

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