The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...
The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbanist), but from book to book he's tried on different genres, and here he's fully hard-boiled, stripping down to a seen-it-all detective's voice that's wonderfully appropriate for this story of seen and unseen. His detective is Inspector Tyador Borlu, a cop in Beszel whose investigation of the murder of a young foreign woman takes him back and forth across the highly policed border to Ul Qoma to uncover a crime that threatens the delicate balance between the cities and, perhaps more so, Borlu's own dissolving sense of identity. In his tale of two cities, Mieville creates a world both fantastic and unsettlingly familiar, whose mysteries don't end with the solution of a murder.
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0 有用 韬子@Tower 2011-03-31 21:59:59
这种City Fantasy的风格确实太喜欢了。不过套个推理侦探悬疑的戏路看上去还是有那么点点大众。作为Weird Novel风潮的代表，这本小说无疑是做到了。尤其是两座城市的点子和概念，成为整个故事的主线和背景，这几乎就让整部书变得闪亮许多。柴纳的怪诞奇幻风格，尤其是走这种城市奇幻的戏码现在是越来越纯熟了。这种两个相互重叠的城市的概念，让人看后都一直赞叹不已。仅凭这一点，这本书就已经值回票价了。... 这种City Fantasy的风格确实太喜欢了。不过套个推理侦探悬疑的戏路看上去还是有那么点点大众。作为Weird Novel风潮的代表，这本小说无疑是做到了。尤其是两座城市的点子和概念，成为整个故事的主线和背景，这几乎就让整部书变得闪亮许多。柴纳的怪诞奇幻风格，尤其是走这种城市奇幻的戏码现在是越来越纯熟了。这种两个相互重叠的城市的概念，让人看后都一直赞叹不已。仅凭这一点，这本书就已经值回票价了。城市隐喻的镜像，在全文有些荒凉和阴暗的背景下，显得有点当年乔治.奥威尔的范。尽管全书中，出现了类似Big Bro属性的Breach，但是Dystopia的意味还是没有那么浓厚——也许对柴纳而言，尽管作为拥有强悍政治经济学背景，尽管是国际关系博士，但是这部书仍然没有那种太过明显的倾向。推荐。以上。 (展开)
0 有用 CSY 2020-07-31 09:53:40
Mieville对二元论有显而易见的执念。虽然很不愿意承认，这种早被用烂了的表现手法在当代依然精确地呈现出个体自我认知的型塑过程，不得不说“人”作为规则的构建者，当真是没有一点点“进化”的迹象。