![]() ![]() The novella comes with an extensive set of notes at the back detailing the sources for all these visions in surrealist art and writing, as well as a pleasantly traditional afterword in which the author claims to have heard the story first hand from its surviving hero. And central to the story is a living version of the “ Exquisite Corpse” by André Breton, Jacqueline Lamba and Yves Tanguy: half human, half mechanical jumble, with an old man’s head crowned by a caterpillar and leaf – as the narrator puts it, “hedgerow chic”. The top half of the Eiffel tower hangs suspended in the sky, the bottom half having disappeared. ![]() There are wolf-tables, and a giant baby’s face emerging from the ground. In the Seine there are sharks with canoe-seats for backs. ![]() The bestiary of surrealist “ manifs”, or manifestations, that Miéville parades before us is dazzling. ![]()
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