The Left Hand Of Darkness
A Fantasy, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy book. It is good to have an end to journey toward;...
Genly Ai is an emissary from the human galaxy to Winter, a lost, stray world. His mission is to bring the planet back into the fold of an evolving galactic civilization, but to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own culture and prejudices and those that he encounters. On a planet where...
Download or read The Left Hand Of Darkness in PDF formats. You may also find other subjects related with The Left Hand Of Darkness.
- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 0 pages
- ISBN: 9780736611299 / 736611290
ByQ-m-gCodW.pdf
More About The Left Hand Of Darkness
Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness // No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness // How does one hate a country, or love one?... I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is the love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness //
They say that The Left Hand of Darkness is a landmark in the field of science fiction literature. Albeit such typecasting seems to be unfair simplification and trivialization since that novel goes much further and deeper than any other of that genre. In view of her interests including cultures, ecology, anthropology, Zen philosophy... I've become rather bitter with sci-fi over the years, as it used to be my favorite genre. But you can only read so many space operas and pretentious near futures before it gets to you a little.And then you decide to give an author a go because of some weird research string you were on... and it rekindles your love of why you started... (Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)The CCLaP 100: In which I read for the first time a hundred so-called "classics," then write reports on whether or not they deserve the...
