tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572679067452493914.post7707371352552937727..comments2024-01-17T00:55:32.904+01:00Comments on EMBRYO - A.Moore en español: UN CAPÍTULO DE "JERUSALEM" DEBUTA EN DIRECTO Y MOORE GANA UN "BRAM STOKER"Embryagadoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15978159658247279627noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4572679067452493914.post-30512785205371849792013-02-01T09:18:48.232+01:002013-02-01T09:18:48.232+01:00La antología "The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabin...La antología "The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities" incluye este pequeño y sugestivo texto de Alan Moore sobre la 'construcción' de su novela JERUSALEM:<br /><br />Objects Discovered in a Novel Under Construction<br /><br />Documented by Alan Moore <br /><br />The following items have been retrieved from the construction site of an uncompleted novel, Jerusalem, where completion of the structure’s uppermost level has been delayed by unanticipated setbacks that are unrelated to the project. <br /> The site itself is gigantic in its dimensions, with more than half a million words already in place and the three-tier edifice as yet only a little more than two-thirds of the way into its lengthy building process. The intimidating silence that pervades the vast and temporarily abandoned landscape is exacerbated by the absence of the novel’s characters and by the lack of any background noise resulting from the engineering and the excavation usually associated with such ventures. <br /> Making a considerable contribution to the already unsettling ambience is the anomalous (and even dangerous) approach to architecture that is evident in the unfinished work: the lowest floor, responsible for bearing the immense load of the weightier passages and chambers overhead, seems to be built entirely of distressed red brick and grey slate roofing tiles with much of it already derelict or in a state of imminent collapse. Resting on this, the massive second tier would seem to be constructed mostly out of wood and has been brightly decorated with painted motifs that would appear to be more suited to a nursery or school environment, contrasted with the bleak and even brutal social realism that’s suggested by the weathered brickwork and decrepit terraces immediately below. <br /> The topmost storey, where work has been halted, seems again to be accomplished in a style that is entirely unrelated to the floors beneath. The building’s lines and sweeping curves are unresolved, curtailed in jutting spars or girders that stand enigmatically against the skyline. Amidst these skeletal protrusions are two or three relatively finished works of decorative statuary, the most notable being a winged stone figure representing the archangel Michael, who is depicted standing with a shield held in his left hand and what seems to be a snooker cue clutched in his right. <br /><br />http://www.amazon.es/The-Thackery-Lambshead-Cabinet-Curiosities/dp/0062004751/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359706161&sr=8-1<br /><br />Un saludo,<br />Jesús Olmo<br />jesusolmo@hotmail.com<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com