The style is not bad, although the paperback "I read" includes a number of the worst effect printing shells (misplacement of words most often ...). However, nothing to say about translation, subject I am sensitive enough ordinary (to have long been dealing with professional books translated with the feet). I would say that to criticize the translation and recommend reading the book in the original version, as some have done, you either have a sacred level of English or be suffering from an incurable snob bobo syndrome ( syndrome that had already struck in his time some readers of the Harry Potter saga, although the latter was actually more accessible in the language of Shakespeare as the Iron Throne ...)
The interest of this saga, as in his time that the Lord of the Rings, is its ability, through an imaginary tale, to tell us about the present time. The "Lord of the Rings" by JRR Tolkien wrote between 1937 and 1949 undoubtedly had a connection with that dark time of his birth, although it may be excessive today to see a work of art visionary, heralding Nazi hysteria. The epic of Thrones also contains some disturbing elements that are reminiscent of the works of Tolkien.
Central element of the saga, the theme of the "wall" refers us directly to past historical experiences such as the Wall of Adrian, meant to protect the Gallo-Roman cities (Great) Britain incursions of the barbarians from the north, or the Great Wall , ultimate protection of imperial China face the Mongol threat; but also to more recent experiences, other walls visible (Berlin Wall, West Bank wall ...), invisible (Iron Curtain, apartheid, ...) or fantasized (the "wall" of King Kong ...), always with the same question: Who will it beyond the wall that threatens us and how to cope?
The present era is no shortage of potential dangers, whether climatic, démogaphiques, energy, economic, political ... and the question that arises therefore is this:
Mortal dangers against which the work of GRR Martin will it this time warn us?
Because one thing is for sure ... the winter comes!
