At first glance, Being Invisible mainly resembles Berger's later novels because of its competitive and morally indifferent urban setting. But the novel also recalls earlier Berger novels that skirt the boundaries of fantasy. The closest kinship to any prior work in the Berger canon is its likeness to Arthur Rex (1978) in the use of fantasy. As in the retelling of the Arthurian saga, Berger presents the marvelous as matter-of-fact, without resorting to pseudoscientific explanations.