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I really don’t like the narrative framing of this book. I find it especially tedious in the first section where they discuss current problems in Europe. The description of Utopian society goes back and forth from trenchant criticism of capitalism or property ownership to descriptions of bizarre customs such as their marriage rituals.
The additional essays by China Miéville and Ursula LeGuin are good, analyzing and problematizing the concept of utopias. I especially like LeGuin’s description of the purpose of utopian fiction “to dislodge the mind from the habit of thinking that the way we live now is the only way people can live.”
The additional essays by China Miéville and Ursula LeGuin are good, analyzing and problematizing the concept of utopias. I especially like LeGuin’s description of the purpose of utopian fiction “to dislodge the mind from the habit of thinking that the way we live now is the only way people can live.”