J.R.R. Tolkien e China Miéville: l’uccisione del padre e la creazione dei mondi
Abstract
China Miéville è oggi, indubbiamente, uno degli autori più noti e influenti nell’ambito della letteratura fantastica. Pur non definendosi autore di fantasy, ma di letteratura weird, l’interesse – anche teorico – per il fantastico ha portato China Miéville a pronunciarsi spesso sulla funzione e sulla qualità delle opere di J.R.R. Tolkien. Nonostante la distanza ideologica tra i due autori (cattolico conservatore l’uno, socialista marxista l’altro) l’articolo cerca di mettere in evidenza come la teoria della subcreazione, formulata da Tolkien nel suo saggio Sulle fiabe, abbia esercitato una profonda e dichiarata influenza sulla creazione dei mondi narrativi di China Miéville.
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China Miéville is today, without a doubt, one of the best known and most influential authors in the field of fantastic literature. Although he does not define himself as an author of fantasy, but of weird fiction, his interest – even theoretical – in the fantastic has led China Miéville to often pronounce on the function and quality of J.R.R. Tolkien's works. Despite the ideological distance between the two authors (one a conservative Catholic, the other a Marxist socialist) the article tries to highlight how the theory of sub-creation, formulated by Tolkien in his essay On Fairy-Stories, has exerted a profound and declared influence on the creation of China Miéville's fictional worlds.
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