Neverwhere

Neverwhere first of all was a Televised series English of six episodes written by Neil Gaiman and diffused on BBC in 1996, then a Romance (it did itself the adaptation) published in 1996, translated into French by Patrick Marcel in 1998. This novel is one of the first books of Fantasy urban translates into France. In 2006, the book has in its turn adapted in Roman graph by Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry. It is published in English by Titan Books in Great Britain and Vertigo in the USA. An interview of Mike Carey translated into French is available here.

Synopsis

Richard Mayhew saw with London a life without history, works in an office, is on the point of marrying, when it saves the life of Door, an young girl who has the gift to know to open all that can open. This event makes rock its life. Its been engaged leaves it, its close relations do not see it more, its life never seems not to have existed.

He discovers whereas there exists London of In Bottoms, underground, populated beggars which speak with the Rat S, and of a whole company Féodal E and magic. He decides to follow Porte to the research of the assassins of his father, in the hope to find a means of taking again a normal life.

Topics

  • the inhabitants of the world of In Top do not see those of the world of the Mendiant S, as if they did not exist. There is thus a clear metaphor of our attitude towards the underprivileged ones of our company.

  • Neverwhere is a tale which confronts the real-world and an imaginary world, which one describes as Fantasy urban. It would be besides one of the first works of the kind.
  • the town of London is traversed in all the directions, with the top and in lower part of surface. The names of the most famous places of this city, in particular of the stations of subway, find an explanation in London of In Bottom. Under Blackfriars, for example, one finds monks black, Knightsbridge is a very dangerous bridge, etc
  • the banality and the trouble of a normal life , compared with that in London of In Bottom.

Characters

  • Richard Mayhew

  • Door
  • Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar, sadistic killers
  • the Marquis de Carabas, schemer and manipulator
  • Hunter, one fighting, bodyguard of Door
  • the Angel Islington (its name is that of a district of Large London)

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