Carregue numa fotografia para ir para os Livros Google.
A carregar... The Dispossessed (1974)por Ursula K. Le Guin
» 85 mais Favourite Books (123) Five star books (15) Female Author (79) 20th Century Literature (181) Best Dystopias (134) Nebula Award (7) SF Masterworks (20) Readable Classics (36) Books Read in 2018 (165) Books Read in 2019 (249) Top Five Books of 2017 (106) 1970s (65) Best Love Stories (21) Read This Next (9) Books Read in 2010 (20) AP Lit (11) Overdue Podcast (163) Top Five Books of 2016 (795) Books Read in 2016 (3,188) Best First Lines (78) Books Read in 2007 (65) Walls (2) Science Fiction (27) Review 3 (13) SF - To Read (14) Utopia (1) Libertarian Books (95) Unread books (967) A carregar...
Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro.
One of the best novel I have read in a long time. ( ) The first time I read this back in the 90s I thought it was great but I think I missed a lot. Now, rereading it, I find it to be an amazing and thought-provoking look not only at capitalism and anarchism, but how politics of any kind will tend toward solidification unless people continuously and actively work to keep the ideals alive and even improve on them. Good lessons here for today's democracy that is being weakened and is under threat of disappearing entirely. The philosophizing, oh the philosophizing was agonizing. I have read Le Guin's short stories, but this was my first novel. I was so bored! I despise Shevek, I did not care about the Physics, the stakes. Sadly, I was disappointed in the dullness of this novel. I think there is some (almost) fascinating dialogue happening about the implications of societal norms on ideas, culture on ideas, ideology, political morality, morality in general. I am sad that I was so bored. A book club pick :) I have been in love with Le Guin’s writing for a very long time, and I was in love with it once again. There are beautiful lines in The Dispossessed. “That vivid memory and the cool vast touch of the night wind awakened him. His soul came out of hiding.” “Awe came into him. He knew himself blessed though he had not asked for blessing.” My favourite thing about the book was following Shevek and how every chapter alternated between his past and the book’s present – Shevek’s coming of age, his evolution, and the relationships that grow and change, as his spirit finds freedom. All the pages that had Shevek and Takver in them were riveting. To me, this was a story of exile and belonging, of leaving the world you know and coming home, of the impossibility of utopia. I do wish that Le Guin hadn’t made this novel into an extremely long political science essay. It did not blend well with the rest. Reading about Urras and Anarres is not uninteresting; but contrasting a capitalist society with an anarchist/communist one does not feel like a useful exercise in 2023. Yes, I can tell where Le Guin is coming from describing the extreme misogyny of Urras (I’m with you there, dear author): “If to respect himself Kimoe had to consider half the human race as inferior to him, how then women manage to respect themselves – did they consider men inferior?” Anarres’s egalitarian society taken to extreme feels like a dictatorship to me, with a public opinion that can punish you, suffocate you, take your soul away. The treatment of children on Anarres made me cringe, it reminded me of one of those things dictatorships love – parents can’t raise good citizens, their influence is harmful, let the state take care of this instead (and people formed by the same mold are so much easier to influence, yay). The author seemed to approve of this, and it soured the book for me. I debated the final rating with myself for quite a while. Still, 4.0 stars it is - because Shevek was there. Lovely. Very thoughtful and beautiful, not in a geographical sense, but in the humanity sense. Philosophical at its core , an examination of political structures, the nature of beings and how they are shaped and influenced by their societies. Good stuff. The protagonist, Shevek, is compelling and sympathetic making reading the story through his eyes very enjoyable.
Doch wollte Le Guin mit den Habenichtsen und ihrem Planeten weder ideale Menschen schildern, noch eine ideale Gesellschaft. Zu deutlich zeichnet sie die Schwächen und Mängel beider. Nicht nur die Urrasti, auch viele der Menschen auf Anarres sind hab- und machtgierig, intrigant und Karrieristen, obwohl es dort offiziell weder eine Hierarchie noch Eigentum gibt. Doch dafür werden die Anarresti gelegentlich "gezwungen, auf eigenen Wunsch für einige Zeit wegzugehen", weil die Gesellschaft sie andernorts braucht - oder auch, weil sie einem Mächtigeren im Weg sind. "Ein Paar, das eine Partnerschaft einging, tat dies in voller Kenntnis der Tatsache, dass es jederzeit durch die Erfordernisse der Arbeitsteilung getrennt werden konnte." Es gibt Zwangsarbeit, und Dissidenten werden schon mal zur "Therapie" auf einsame Inseln verbracht, und schon im ersten Teil des Romans stellt Shevek resignierend fest, "dass man für niemanden etwas tun kann. Wir können uns nicht gegenseitig retten. Nicht mal uns selber." Pertence a SérieHainish Cycle (6) Pertence à Série da EditoraEstá contido emUrsula Leguin Collection: Left Hand of Darkness, the Earthsea Quartet & the Dispossessed por Ursula Leguin ContémPrémiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
Fiction.
Literature.
Science Fiction.
HTML: "One of the greats....Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon." ?? Stephen King From the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust ?? and the man who risks everything to reunite them. 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 Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
Current DiscussionsGroup Discussion - The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin em The Green Dragon Capas populares
Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
É você?Torne-se num Autor LibraryThing. |