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The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth (2012)

di Ursula K. Le Guin

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Praise for Ursula K. Le Guin's short story collections:

"It is the author's more serious work that displays her talents best. . . . [A] classy and valuable collection."â??Publishers Weekly

"A master of the craft."â??Neil Gaiman

The Unreal and the Real is a two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best stories. It is a much-anticipated event and there is no doubt it will delight, amuse, and provoke. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's satirical, risky, political, and experimental earthbound stories.

Ursula K. Le Guin has received the PENâ??Malamud and National Book Awards, among others. She lives in Portland, Ore… (altro)

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As usual beautifully written, though I still prefer her more SF works. ( )
  SChant | Nov 17, 2022 |
Úgy indul, mint egy vakrandi, amit ráadásul a nagymama szervezett le. Gyanakvó tapogatózással, halvány, körvonalazatlan nemtetszéssel. A kötet első fele egy fiktív közép-európai országban játszódik – elmaradottsággal, elnyomással, konstruált hagyományokkal dolgozik, de felsejlenek benne a valódi Közép-Európa egyes történelmi eseményei. Valamiféle pszeudo-realizmus ez, érzékenyen megírva, ám távol tartott tőle, hogy végig úgy éreztem, csak egy Le Guin fejében létező közép-európai beszél úgy, mint a novellák szereplői. Az első hűha-élményem A rózsa naplója olvasásakor sodort el: itt a diktatúrák működésének egy olyan aspektusát kapja el a szerző, ami teljesen a feje tetejére állítja az autoriter rendszerekről alkotott képünket, csupa termékeny bizonytalanság és zavarba ejtő kiszolgáltatottság – nem csupán az áldozat esetében, de az elkövető oldalán is.

Ezt követően, bár akadtak még csúcspontok (Az út iránya, vagy épp a Buffalo lányai, gyertek ki), beállt egy középértékre a kötet. Végig tudatában voltam, hogy Le Guin szenzitív szövegalkotó, aki maximális empátiával fordul a szereplői felé. Ez jó. Aztán jó az is, hogy előszeretettel helyez el pontokat az elbeszélésekben, ahol a szereplők közti kapcsolat, illetve a novella és az olvasó közti kapcsolat egyszeriben új struktúrába rendeződik: ez magabiztos mesterségbeli tudásra utal, és arra, hogy Le Guint őszintén érdeklik az irodalmi eszközök, és azok hatása az irodalmi élményre. Csak itt valahogy mintha el lennének eresztve a történetek. A változás megtörtént, oké, de megtorpanunk – mintha a legtöbb történetnek nem lenne igazi kifutása. Vagy mintha az új nézőpont lenne maga a lényeg, az lenne a kifutás. És azt hiszem, itt leplezi le magát a szerző: első blikkre azt gondolnánk – az erőteljes érzékenység miatt –, hogy egy szereplő- és kapcsolatközpontú íróval van dolgunk, de nem, valójában ezek ötletközpontú novellák. És én a jó ötletet hajlamosabb vagyok kevesebbre értékelni, mint a komplex kapcsolatot szereplő és szereplő, szereplő és olvasó között. Mert előbbi csak úgy jön, utóbbiért viszont jobban meg kell dolgozni.

Azért nem volt tragikus találkozás, egy második randit még mindenképpen leegyeztetünk. Kínait szereted? Vagy gyros-tálat inkább? ( )
  Kuszma | Jul 2, 2022 |
Ursula K. Le Guin somehow manages to surprise me again and again over the years. Every time I think I have her figured out, or know what to expect from her, show throws another curveball (or perhaps a right hook is a more appropriate metaphor) and I'm left pleasantly dazed by the experience.

This second volume of short stories takes us on a tour of works that are more "genre-oriented" than those tales found in the first volume, "Where on Earth" (I'll leave it to the author herself to discuss what qualifies as "science fiction" or "fantasy" tale in the introduction). Many I had read before (sometimes many times over), and they remain plenty interesting: "Semley's Necklace," a scientific spin on a mythic voyage to the lands of faerie; "The Author of the Acacia Seeds," a playful set of micro vignettes concerning the mysterious languages of ants, penguins, and beyond; "The Rule of Names," an early Earthsea tale; "Sur" a charming and disarming account of the (secret) first voyage to the South Pole made by women; a variety of stories set in her expansive and thoughtful Hainish Cycle. A career-spanning collections of short stories like "The Unreal and the Real" is a perfect way to reacquaint oneself with a favorite author, the familiar tales, placed in new and sometimes surprising order, form new juxtapositions and connections... Here Le Guin's background in anthropology, her fascination with the powers (and limits) of language, and her abiding interests in the pressures and patterns of gender emerge as a clear through-line over the course of decades and a wide range of styles and registers.

Other stories were new to me and held the particular delight of new discoveries... Or rather reading the reports of an explorer who tells you of new and sometimes very frightening places. "The Matter of Segrii," told in a series of diverse documents from a world where men are rare (only one in sixteen births) and the female majority hold all the power, begins as a funny and fascinating mirror of our world's gender roles a la "Guliver's Travels" but continues to increase in depth and power as it goes along. The impression it gives the reader is not of fiction but rather a sobering report from a truly disturbing and even perverted world... which in the end is perhaps not unlike our own. "The Wild Girls" is so brutal and matter-of-fact in its descriptions of violence and cruelty it feels almost like something Cormac McCarthy might have written, but the setting, with its triple caste system and the strangely tender moments that unfold within the constraints of that vividly drawn society mark it as uniquely the work of Le Guin.

This world is a poorer place with Le Guin's recent passing. Her work makes me think more, feel more, live more. I'm just glad that she left us with a lot of it to discover and re-discover in the years to come. ( )
  francoisvigneault | May 17, 2021 |
Interesting collection fiction stories by Le Guin. She is a very good author and if you are interested in her stories then this is for you. I usually look for her SF works so these are not what I sought. ( )
  ikeman100 | Feb 19, 2021 |
Quite different for Ursula Le Guin. none of the stories were really fantasy or science fiction to the degree you might expect.
they're all decent, interesting and very readable though.
Two standouts for me:
The direction of the road
has an incredible twist that I couldn't predict, I've reread a number of times and it just gets better.
The diary of the rose
everything I adore about Le guin. Great characterisation, political commentary and really enjoyable. ( )
  mjhunt | Jan 22, 2021 |
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I begged people—editors, friends, third cousins once removed—to help me select stories for this collection, but nobody would. So all the credit for good choices and all the blame for bad ones is mine. If something you rightfully expected to find here isn't here, I'm sorry. I had to leave out a lot of stories, because I've written a lot of them. [from "Introduction: Choosing and Dividing"]
The injured quarrier lay on a high hospital bed. He had not recovered consciousness. His silence was grand and oppressive; his body under the sheet that dropped in stiff folds, his face were as indifferent as stone. The mother, as if challenged by that silence and indifference, spoke loudly: "What did you do it for? Do you want to die before I do? Look at him, look at him, my beauty, my hawk, my river, my son!" Her sorrow boasted of itself. She rose to the occasion like a lark to the morning. His silence and her outcry meant the same thing: the unendurable made welcome. The younger son stood listening. They bore him down with their grief as large as life. Unconscious, heedless, broken like a piece of chalk, that body, his brother, bore him down with the weight of the flesh, and he wanted to run away, to save himself. [from "Brothers and Sisters"]
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Fiction. Short Stories. HTML:

Praise for Ursula K. Le Guin's short story collections:

"It is the author's more serious work that displays her talents best. . . . [A] classy and valuable collection."â??Publishers Weekly

"A master of the craft."â??Neil Gaiman

The Unreal and the Real is a two-volume selection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best stories. It is a much-anticipated event and there is no doubt it will delight, amuse, and provoke. Where on Earth explores Le Guin's satirical, risky, political, and experimental earthbound stories.

Ursula K. Le Guin has received the PENâ??Malamud and National Book Awards, among others. She lives in Portland, Ore

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