Comments on: CHINA MIEVILLE – Will the novel remain writers’ favourite narrative form? http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/the-future-of-the-novel/china-mieville/ The website for the 2012-13 Edinburgh World Writers' Conference Wed, 28 Aug 2013 04:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Ollinton Matthews-Parris http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/the-future-of-the-novel/china-mieville/#comment-65 Ollinton Matthews-Parris Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:07:00 +0000 http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/?p=31#comment-65 the novel needs to evolve as the readership does. creativity must be as water, it will always find somewhere or way to flow

]]> By: Linda Marie Harrison http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/the-future-of-the-novel/china-mieville/#comment-64 Linda Marie Harrison Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:06:00 +0000 http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/?p=31#comment-64 Thanks to the person who mentioned this on Twitter; I was able to catch the last half hour or so. Very interesting.

]]> By: Chris Scott http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/the-future-of-the-novel/china-mieville/#comment-63 Chris Scott Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:40:00 +0000 http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/?p=31#comment-63 But that’s wrong, right?

]]> By: Surina Jain http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/the-future-of-the-novel/china-mieville/#comment-62 Surina Jain Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/?p=31#comment-62 The Future of the Novel is what we write today, how we write today and by and large what we read today… Today is a part of the Future…

]]> By: Scott Moffat http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/the-future-of-the-novel/china-mieville/#comment-61 Scott Moffat Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:26:00 +0000 http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/?p=31#comment-61 G’day world…after watching the Conference on line during the past 5 days, my L writing skills have improved considerably. Thanks to the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference sponsors, management, staffers and technical crews for a superb series of webcast debates, Thanks also to the 50 or so international writers for sharing their specialist skills, knowledge and expertise with all of us. Thanks to the readers who braved the cameras and mikes to make their points. I’m eagerly looking forward to future Conferences from Berlin, Toronto, Cape Town and other capitals…..

]]> By: Alison Summers http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/the-future-of-the-novel/china-mieville/#comment-60 Alison Summers Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:18:00 +0000 http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/?p=31#comment-60 In Communist Russia people committed new poetry to heart because it was too dangerous to write it down as it was bearing witness to crimes of the state. I doubt these writers were paid. Many writers work to eat and write part time.

]]> By: Yasmin Fedda http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/the-future-of-the-novel/china-mieville/#comment-59 Yasmin Fedda Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:14:00 +0000 http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/?p=31#comment-59 Maybe it is true that the future of the novel in Arab society is tied to democracy, but it is also true that the novel as a creative endeavour is part of democratising the whole world.

It puts light on the quality of fun.
At the same time it carries the questions of death and the questions of life.
Now, I cannot think of the future of the novel except that is carries the questions of death.
However, I am waiting for it to carry the future of life.

]]> By: Yasmin Fedda http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/the-future-of-the-novel/china-mieville/#comment-58 Yasmin Fedda Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:09:00 +0000 http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/?p=31#comment-58 Translation of Samar Yezbick

I cannot now, and I do not own the luxury to think about the future of art and of literature. This is because of the bullets, planes and the tanks killing people.

This makes my mind and my heart tied to the blood that is being spilt like rivers in my country.

However, all of this does not stop me from the moments when I met the Free Army, as it is is fighting the regime of Bashar al Assad. The story comes out of me and records the reality of continuous death in front of my eyes, so the novel is part of reality.

It is part of the movement for change, for a more beautiful change in reality. It is the future of this beauty which will be between pleasure and justice.

]]> By: Yasmin Fedda http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/the-future-of-the-novel/china-mieville/#comment-57 Yasmin Fedda Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:01:00 +0000 http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/?p=31#comment-57 Translation of Samar Yezbick:

At the same time I thought also when we are witnessing death, this is the hardest thing to describe. It requires a language of long narration. No It is not possible for any art of creativity to express about the intensity of the crimes that are happening in Syria. This requires many questions about its future. I see death with my eyes

My thought is that the narration of the novel is abut experiencing a new ife

]]> By: Samar Yazbek http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/the-future-of-the-novel/china-mieville/#comment-56 Samar Yazbek Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:58:00 +0000 http://www.edinburghworldwritersconference.org/?p=31#comment-56 ربما ليس صحيحا الحديث ان مستقبل الرواية الرواية في مجتمعاتنا العربية مرهون بالديمقراطية، لكن الصحيح ان الراوية كفعل ابداعي جمالي هو جزء من دمقرطة العالم كله، لكنها أيضا الانضواء تحت خاصية العبث، هي نفسها تحمل اسئلة الموت
وأسئلة الحياة
الآن لااستطيع التفكير إلا ان الرواية تحمل فقط اسئلة الموت
ولكني انتظر منها ان تحمل مستقبل الحياة

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