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The Art of Unseeing in China Mieville’s The City & The City

By John Folk-Williams

The City & the City by China Mieville The Art of Unseeing

The City & the City by China Miéville takes the form of a murder mystery amplified by Miéville’s unique ability to find richly suggestive fantasy metaphors about our world. This one is about the art of unseeing or seeing only what you are permitted to recognize in the midst of the doppelgänger cities of Besźel […]

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