The Book of Elsewhere

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Yet this is not a superficial book – it has lots of depth, but it is scattered throughout on its surface. There is deep insight in epistemics, in deep time, in the mystery of creation, in the paradox of conflicting human emotions, in itself as a textual construction, in the practice of psychological therapy, in our “desire for clarification that w[ill] never come”, and in yet another paradox – the fact that more knowledge both leads to more and less caring. There is wisdom in The Book of Elsewhere.

It’s interesting that a book where all characters are fairly cardboard Miéville still manages to paint Unute with surprising details. It makes him more than just a cartoon character, even though he – fittingly – hardly ever comes into full focus either.

I don’t know how Miéville could have escaped the binary matrix of change vs. changelessness, or at least could have made that more interesting than it ends up being. Be that as it may, The Book of Elsewhere still is fresh, smart, exiting.

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