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   Mar 7, 2019 · John Lanchester's dystopian novel 'The Wall' posits a grim future for what might happen if the world continues as it is. ... As in all good dystopian fiction, Lanchester shows us a world that ...

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2. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › booksThe Wall by John Lanchester, review: A dystopian novel that ...

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   The Wall is an ambitious book, and thorough, even though it’s painting a broad dystopia. It’s about climate change, but it could be about the refugee crisis, Brexit or borders in America.

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4. www.goodreads.com › book › showThe Wall by John Lanchester - Goodreads

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   Jan 17, 2019 · Lanchester’s dystopian novel explores a world where sea levels have risen dramatically after ‘the Change’, land is scarce and in need of protection from ‘the Others’. Thus, the country (similar to the U.K.) has erected ‘the Wall’ and manned it with ‘Defenders’ to keep out water and unwelcome immigrants—a literal Brexit.

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   Jan 11, 2019 · John Lanchester’s fifth novel is a speculative fantasy about a wall that is insistently, stubbornly real. The Wall is set in the near future, in a familiar version of Britain (people still eat ...

6. www.bbc.co.uk › news › entertainment-arts-46919072Will Gompertz reviews John Lanchester's dystopian novel The ...

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   Jan 19, 2019 · Come on man, sharpen up! But he doesn't. He's a trusting soul, which is always a mistake in a dystopian novel. Fortunately he's a good swimmer. BBC/Kudos/Hal Shinnie. John Lanchester's novel ...

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7. www.bbc.com › news › entertainment-arts-46919072Will Gompertz reviews John Lanchester's dystopian novel The ...

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   Enter John Lanchester, a first-class essayist and now five-time novelist who has written The Wall, a dystopian tale set in a Britain of the near-ish future. Suffice it to say, things have not gone ...

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   Is Lanchester a good dystopian novel?

   • As in all good dystopian fiction, Lanchester shows us a world that could become a reality; if we keep doing what we’re doing, we’ll get there, eventually. But the great trick of the novel is that he avoids hysterics.

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   Is Lanchester a good book?

   • Even Lanchester’s characters seem to be devoid of heat. Lanchester does an excellent job of revealing the cruelties inherent in this ‘cold’ world and its philosophical implications. Enjoy! This is a dystopian novel about climate change, nationalism, and immigration, as much as it is about human nature and basic survival.

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   Is 'the change' a dystopian look at a future?

   • No. It was (for me) an interesting but lightweight dystopian look at a possible future where walls abound to keep immigrants (called “Others” here) out and where climate change (called “The Change”) has flooded the landscape.

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   What makes a good dystopian novel?

   • The book fumbles with issues of nativism and xenophobia, but fails to properly interrogate this theme or offer any insights. A really good dystopian novel can pose existential questions, hold a mirror to society, reframe the human experience, or skewer preconceptions.

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   Is The Wall by John Lanchester a dystopia?

   • The Wall by John Lanchester is a thorough exploration of a dystopia, although it's not limited to climate change. It could also be about the refugee crisis, Brexit, or borders in America. Despite the subzero temperatures described in the book, the reader is not completely chilled.

   The Wall by John Lanchester, review: A dystopian novel

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   What's wrong with Lanchester?

   • The problem with Lanchester's novel 'The Wall' is that he is so committed to making us experience exactly what his protagonist experiences that we feel the boredom and horror of a 12-hour shift in what seems like real time. The book is full of chilly anger.

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9. www.harvardreview.org › book-review › the-wallThe Wall - Harvard Review

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   Jan 12, 2021 · The Wall is a book squarely for our time: set a few minutes after a hypertrophied Brexit with an industrial dose of the nativism that is more familiar to American readers. The dystopian conceit is a zero say-do gap where policy is manifest in the most literal and stark proportions. It’s not a new trick, but in Lanchester’s hands, The Wall ...