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Ursula K. Le GuinLibri
21 ottobre 1929 – 22 gennaio 2018
Ursula K. Le Guin era rinomata per le sue incisive esplorazioni di genere, sistemi politici e alterità. Le sue opere attingevano frequentemente a una profonda comprensione dell'antropologia, evidente nella creazione di intricate società fittizie. Attraverso i suoi narratori, spesso inviati, esaminava gli incontri e le interazioni tra culture e mondi disparati. Le Guin utilizzò la sua distintiva narrazione in prima persona per immergere profondamente il lettore nell'essenza dell'esperienza umana e della differenza.
Nel mondo incantato di Terramare, fatto di isole, arcipelaghi e sconfinate distese d'acqua, il giovane Mago Ged prosegue il lungo e avventuroso viaggio che gli ha permesso di conquistare poteri sempre maggiori e di lottare vittoriosamente contro l'Ombra. Il compito che ora lo aspetta è la conquista dell'anello spezzato di Erreth-Akbe, nel lontano deserto di Atuan. Ed è là che incontra Tenar, un'adolescente strappata alla famiglia quando era ancora bambina, per essere consacrata sacerdotessa delle Forze della Terra e custodire le Tombe che celano l'anello, finché Ged non decide di portarla via dall'oscuro labirinto in cui è reclusa. Sarà la luce della magia a liberare Tenar dalle tenebre...
Urras e Anarres sono due pianeti gemelli, ma anche due mondi inconciliabili.Il primo, densamente popolato, rappresenta la società dei consumi, avanzata dal punto di vista tecnologico, e governata da un sistema capitalistico; il secondo, con le sue le sue terre desertiche, è popolato dai seguaci di Odo, un gruppo di anarchici che vi ha creato una società libera e semplice, consona ai propri ideali, una fratellanza da cui è escluso il concetto di proprietà. Shevek,matematico geniale di Anarres, è convinto che l'unico modo di salvare la società degli anarchici dalla discesa verso una cultura rigida e autoritaria,consista nella sua apertura agli scambi inter-culturali con l'altro mondo.
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the timeless and beloved A Wizard of
Earthsea. Includes six novels, short stories and non-fiction, and with over
fifty illustrations by Charles Vess
In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: 'before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.' Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero's long, hard, killing tools, our ancestors' greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story. The bag of stars. This influential essay opens a portal to terra ignota: unknown lands where the possibilities of human experience and knowledge can be discovered anew. With a new introduction by Donna Haraway, the eminent cyberfeminist, author of the revolutionary A Cyborg Manifesto and most recently, Staying with the Trouble and Manifestly Haraway. With images by Lee Bul, a leading South Korean feminist artist who had a retrospective at London's Hayward Gallery in 2018.
"This fifth volume in the definitive Library of America edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's work presents a trilogy of coming-of-age stories set in the Western Shore, a world where young people find themselves struggling not just against racism, prejudice, and slavery, but with mysterious and magical gifts. Includes Gifts, Voices, and Powers"-- Provided by publisher
A master builder of faraway, fantastic worlds, Ursula K. Le Guin, at mid-career, found in her native California the inspiration for what was to be her greatest literary construction: nothing less than an entire ethnography of a future society, the Kesh, living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. This Library of America edition of her 1985 classic Always Coming Home, prepared in close consultation with the author, features new material added by Le Guin just before her death, including for the first time the complete text of the novella-within-the-novel, Dangerous People. Survivors of an ecological catastrophe brought on by heedless industrialization, the Kesh live in hard-won balance with their environment and between genders. Le Guin meditates here more deeply and more personally on themes explored earlier in The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed. Always Coming Home is comprised of "translations" of a wide array of Kesh writings: a three-part narrative by a woman named Stone Telling recounting her travels beyond the Valley, where she lives with the mysterious, patriarchal Condor people; "Chapter 2" of a novel by the brilliant Kesh writer Wordriver, in which a woman's disappearance reveals hidden tensions within and beyond her clan; poems; folk tales for adults and children; verse dramas; recipes; even an alphabet and glossary of the Kesh language. To this extraordinary architecture, Le Guin has added a special section of new material, including the two "missing" chapters of Wordriver's Dangerous People, newly discovered poetry and meditations of the Kesh people, and a guide to their syntax. With evocative illustrations by artist Margaret Chodos-Irvine, and Le Guin's own hand-drawn maps, the cumulative effect is, in the words of Samuel R. Delany, "Le Guin's most consistently lyric and luminous book."
Ursula K. Le Guin's poetry encapsulates themes of freedom, human bravery, and the intricacies of nature, reflecting her lifelong exploration of creativity. This definitive volume brings together her verse, from her first collection, Wild Angels, to her last, So Far So Good, along with sixty-eight previously uncollected poems. The edition includes a new introduction by Harold Bloom and selections of her prose on poetry, offering insight into her artistic journey and the profound ideas that permeate her work.
