Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea:
"What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. She owned me at age eight, on the overlit and understaffed second floor of the DC library (Chevy Chase branch). Four decades and who knows how many rereadings later, her Earthsea owns me still. T...
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Oxford ; New York
Oxford University Press
2023
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| Zusammenfassung: | "What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. She owned me at age eight, on the overlit and understaffed second floor of the DC library (Chevy Chase branch). Four decades and who knows how many rereadings later, her Earthsea owns me still. The reasons to love her Earthsea are many. She sets readers adrift among worlds: peripatetic but somehow at home. She sublimely mixes comfort and revelatory, emancipatory unsettlement. Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea aims to do justice to both Le Guin's passionate simplicity and her revenant complexity. Small wonder the inspiration she has been for later speculative writers like Neil Gaiman, Kim Stanley Robinson and N. K. Jemisin. The boldness and coldness of the later three books of Earthsea is a revelation. In Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea, The Other Wind, (written decades after A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, and The Farthest Shore were published between 1968 and 1972) she turned a cold eye, a dragon's searching eye, back on the comfortable green world she herself had made decades earlier. They unfold a distinctive vision of the writer's task: worldbuilding as responsibility plus openness. Call it invitational realism. She builds a world that leaves the real task of building, of creating of imagining and of reimagining, with her readers. Drawing on my own crooked path--from a DC childhood to teaching in Prague to San Francisco journalism to graduate school and then parenthood--Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea maps the ways that readers young and old find in Earthsea a kind of scholar's stone, a delightfully mutable surface that rewards recurrent contemplation"-- |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 138 Seiten 5 Illustrationen, 1 Karte 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780192847881 |
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