It is technically possible to be familiar with only one of these aspects of Miéville’s career, but it would require an act of will. On both scores, his bona fides are beyond reproach: Since 1998, he’s published a string of best-selling, prizewinning, critically acclaimed fantasy novels of the so-called New Weird tendency, including the “ Perdido Street Station” trilogy and his breakout novel “The City and the City,” which was adapted for British television.Īs for Marxism, Miéville’s dissertation in international relations, “Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law,” was published by Haymarket in 2006, and he was the Socialist Alliance candidate for British Parliament for a district in central London in the 2001 election. “The way to tell if a fantasy novel was written by a Marxist,” an observant person once said, “is that it gets the ratio of peasants to lords right, while the bourgeois variety is off by orders of magnitude.”Ĭhina Miéville is a fantasy writer and a Marxist.
A SPECTRE, HAUNTING: On “The Communist Manifesto,” by China Miéville
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