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Bezig met laden... De linkerhand van het duister (1969)door Ursula K. Le Guin
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. unusual for it's time this title refers to gender crossing - make notes in Commonplace Book once read I am not a science fiction person at all so take this with a grain of salt when I say it's my favorite in the genre- or don't and just read it. please. I can't quite sum up all of my thoughts here but at its heart this is a story yes about gender (in a SPECTACULAR way) but it's also just a story of a very lonely alien/human making his way in a very unfamiliar world and being forever changed by it. oh, and also love. im so hurt i'll come back to this review when I have more coherent thoughts but please read this This is such a deeply flawed and enormously brilliant piece of writing. I love it in part, I think, because of its flaws and weirdnesses--the ways that it is visionary and deeply of its time all at once. I'm not a big fan of LeGuin's later short story set on Gethen--I'm not interested in making that world more coherent or comfortable. The messy inadequacy of its discussion of gender makes it more compelling, I think, ultimately: it feels more akin to my own feelings/journeys with gender--knowing that we don't have the words for it, and all the words we do have for it are irrevocably shaped by a messy and violent culture. I feel like trans discussions of identity tend to be utopian and revisionist (in the best way) at once. Also, as ever, what enormously lucid and compelling prose: LeGuin is so capable of talking about big things in brilliant (incredibly quotable) ways, even when in doing so she reveals the flaws of her understandings. I don't know how coherent/clear this review is, but I've been thinking about it often in the weeks since I've read it, and I will probably go on thinking about it for a long while. I can see why this won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards the year it was released. It is a masterpiece. I love how Le Guin explores how humanity can change and evolve on different worlds. When an envoy from a different planet arrives, the people seem alien, even though its only a different version of humanity being encountered. All of the Hainish novels seem to be a variation of this theme, with different maturation levels. This is a very powerful novel, but the reason I am giving it 4 stars instead of 5 is that the last act, the journey across the ice, the transformation essentially of Genly Ai to a native of Winter, wasn't as compelling as the rest of the novel. It dragged a bit for me, which I guess make sense, since it was an arduous and slow journey. But overall, this was an interesting novel that was fairly easy to read, with an interesting take on anthropology and how humanity can change. We should see everyone as human, not just based on our assumptions of what a human should be.
Bei dem Roman "Die linke Hand der Dunkelheit" handelt es sich um nicht weniger als die erste Geschlechter-Utopie: Die Menschen auf dem Planeten Winter, die Gethianer, sind vier Fünftel ihres Erwachsenenlebens geschlechtslos, nur während der sogenannten Kemmer entwickeln sie vorübergehend männliche oder weibliche Geschlechtsorgane, wobei sie vorher weder wissen, welches Geschlecht sie annehmen werden, noch Einfluss darauf haben. Auch haben sie keine bestimmte Vorliebe für eines der Geschlechter. Sind sie nach dem Verständnis des auf ihrem Planeten gelandeten männlichen Terraners die meiste Zeit ihres Lebens "hermaphroditische Neutren", so sehen sie sich selbst als "Potentiale" oder "Integrale". Der lebenslänglich auf ein Geschlecht festgelegte und ständig sexualisierte Terraner hingegen ist für sie ein "sexuelles Monstrum". In einer Gesellschaft wie der gethenianischen gibt es keine Vergewaltigung und natürlich keinen Ödipus-Mythos. Da kein Individuum weiß, ob es sich in der nächsten Kemmer-Phase zur Frau oder zum Mann entwickelt, jedeR Mutter des einen und Vater eines anderen Kindes sein kann, ist die gethenianische Gesellschaft "in ihren alltäglichen Funktionen und ihrer Kontinuität frei von Konflikten, die ihren Ursprung in der Sexualität haben", denn "jeder kann alles machen". Überhaupt, so heißt es an einer Stelle, ist "die Tendenz zum Dualismus, die das Denken der Menschen so beherrscht, auf Winter weit weniger stark ausgeprägt". Eine solche Gesellschaft vorzustellen, ist zumindest das Anliegen Le Guins, doch gelingt es ihr nur bedingt. Zwar sind Denken und Gemeinschaft nicht durch die Geschlechterdichotomie bestimmt, doch ist "alles [...] dem Somer-Kemmer-Zyklus unterworfen", einer anderen Dichotomie also. An instant classic Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Hainish Cycle (4) Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Mirabilia (32) Mirabilia (32) ハヤカワ文庫 SF (252) Is opgenomen inFive Complete Novels: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / The Word for World door Ursula K. Le Guin Three Ekumen Novels: The Left Hand of Darkness / City of Illusions / Planet of Exile door Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Novels and Stories, Volume One: Rocannon's World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions / The Left Hand of Darkness / The Dispossessed / Stories door Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories [Library of America Boxed Set] door Ursula K. Le Guin (indirect) Heeft de bewerkingBestudeerd inHeeft als een commentaar op de tekstHeeft als studiegids voor studentenPrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
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Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters. Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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