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The Dispossessed: S.F. MASTERWORKS

Autor Ursula K. Le Guin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 aug 1999

Ce înseamnă cu adevărat să fii liber într-o lume care îți îngrădește gândirea prin ziduri invizibile, dar omniprezente? În „The Dispossessed”, Ursula K. Le Guin ne propune o incursiune fascinantă în mecanismele puterii și ale ordinii sociale, construind un sistem dualist care rămâne unul dintre cele mai riguroase din literatura de gen. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autoarea folosește figura lui Shevek, un fizician teoretician, pentru a explora nu doar legile timpului, ci și pe cele ale moralității umane. Premisa este una de o profunzime rară: Shevek părăsește planeta Anarres — o utopie anarhistă austeră — pentru a ajunge pe Urras, o lume a abundenței materiale, dar marcată de ierarhii rigide și corupție. Putem afirma că romanul nu este doar o aventură spațială, ci un studiu antropologic despre cum mediul natural modelează spiritul de competiție sau dorința de cooperare. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la The Left Hand of Darkness, deși accentul pus aici pe structurile politice și pe fizica teoretică marchează o voce proprie, mult mai ancorată în dezbaterea ideologică. Reținem finețea cu care Le Guin descrie „zidul” — o metaforă pentru granițele mentale care separă posesia de apartenență. Față de volumele de început din Worlds of Exile and Illusion, acest roman reprezintă apogeul maturității sale literare în cadrul universului Hainish, oferind o perspectivă mult mai nuanțată asupra modului în care individul se poate raporta la colectivitate fără a-și sacrifica integritatea intelectuală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781857988826
ISBN-10: 1857988825
Pagini: 318
Ilustrații: maps
Dimensiuni: 200 x 133 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția Gollancz
Seria S.F. MASTERWORKS

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lectură oricărui pasionat de beletristică speculativă care dorește să exploreze concepte politice și filozofice complexe. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă unică asupra anarhismului și capitalismului, totul prin prisma unui sistem magic-tehnologic bazat pe fizica timpului. Este o carte fundamentală pentru a înțelege evoluția genului science-fiction de la simplă aventură la critică socială profundă, oferind un motiv concret de reflecție asupra libertății individuale.


Despre autor

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) a fost o figură centrală a literaturii americane, recunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a infuza genul science-fiction și fantasy cu teme profunde de antropologie, taoism și feminism. Născută într-o familie de intelectuali (fiica antropologului Alfred Kroeber), ea a transformat experiența academică în fundamentul unor lumi complexe precum cele din The Earthsea Cycle sau universul Hainish. Prima femeie distinsă simultan cu premiile Hugo și Nebula, Le Guin a redefinit standardele literare, fiind publicată în timpul vieții de Library of America, o onoare rezervată giganților literaturii.


Descriere

The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres.

But Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous colleagues, so he travels to Anarres's sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more liberty and tolerance there. But he soon finds himself being used as a pawn in a deadly political game.


Recenzii

The book I wish I had written ... It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love to sit at my desk one day and discover that I could think and write like Ursula Le Guin
The Dispossessed paints a hopeful; and complex portrait of a society rooted in collectivism
An extraordinary work ... [Le Guin] created a working society in exquisite detail ... a fully realised hypothetical culture [as well as] living breathing characters who are inevitable products of that culture
This remains a challenging and urgent book
A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again
Le Guin's book ... is so persuasive that it ought to put a stop to the writing of prescriptive Utopias for at least 10 years
Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power
I think that everyone on earth, and everyone who cares about being alive, should read THE DISPOSSESSED
A seamless creation: everything is made up, nothing seems arbitrary
[Le Guin had] the heart of a poet who knew all too well the difference between miracle and eureka, revelation and revolution
One of our finest projectionists of brave old and other worlds
One of the great American political novels . . . Full of intrigue and drama
Written with thought, care - even love
Le Guin's storytelling is sharp, magisterial, funny, thought-provoking and exciting, exhibiting all that science fiction can be
The Dispossessed is still one of Sci-Fi's' smartest books . . . Remains a thoughtful exploration of politics and economics nearly 50 years later
A deeply imagined work of art
Dystopia and utopia are entwined in Le Guin's story of hierarchy-bound Urras and its anarchist neighbour planet Anarres. With stylish prose and intellectual rigour, Le Guin charts the journey of young physicist Shevek, whose theories cause upheaval on both planets, as he struggles to survive, falls in love and contemplates human society
A work of extraordinary imagination and compassion
Le Guin's most philosophical novel ... a study of character, ideology and the constant of change
Le Guin's characters, especially Shevek and his family, are complex and haunting, and her writing is remarkable for its sinewy grace
One of the most important science fiction novels of the last several years
I would be hard pressed to think of another novel that made as strong an impression on me
THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS and THE DISPOSSESSED challenged me to reimagine what human culture might look like - challenged me to imagine how we might throw off the death grip of capitalism, and its attendant values of patriarchy and racism. In each of them, I was transported by Le Guin's prose - lyrical and rich and deliberate in its rhythms. And in each one of them, I found, there was a scene I stopped to reread, sometimes more than once - a scene so powerful it actually moved me to tears

Notă biografică

Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest writers of our time. Her books have attracted millions of devoted readers and won many awards, including the National Book Award, the Hugo and Nebula Awards and a Newbery Honor. Among her novels, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed and the six books of Earthsea have attained undisputed classic status; and her recent series, the Annals of the Western Shore, has won her the PEN Center USA Children's literature award and the Nebula Award for best novel. In 2014 Ursula Le Guin was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lived in Portland, Oregon, until she passed away in January 2018.

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Textul de pe ultima copertă

A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite the two planets, which have been divided by centuries of distrust. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have kept them apart.
To visit Urras—to learn, to teach, to share—will require great sacrifice and risks, which Shevek willingly accepts. But the ambitious scientist's gift is soon seen as a threat, and in the profound conflict that ensues, he must reexamine his beliefs even as he ignites the fires of change.