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Cargando... Neveryóna (1983)por Samuel R. Delany
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I came across the first book in the Return to Neveryon series (Tales of Neveryon) at random in a small bookstore in Stratford-upon-Avon in England. It looked interesting, so I bought it and read it on the flight back to the States. This novel sparked a love affair with the writings of Samuel R. Delany - both fiction and non-fiction, across multiple genres - that continues to this day. One of the best reasons to read the series, though, are the appendices in each book in which he shows us the inspiration behind his creative process, his fascination with writing and its history, and his staggering intellect. Absolutely fascinating! A strange mix of philosophy text and episodic novel. Definitely not to everyone's taste but I found the entire series immensely satisfying and thought-provoking. Really great stuff. UPDATE: I read from this series about once a year. Every time I pick up on something new, some unique and intriguing piece of semiotic or cultural insight. The books are difficult, but truly rewarding. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Tales of Nevèrÿon "continues to surprise and delight" with this thought-provoking epic fantasy (The New York Times). One of the few in Nevèrÿon who can read and write, pryn has saddled a wild dragon and taken off from a mountain ledge. Self-described as an adventurer, warrior, and thief, in her journey pryn will meet plotting merchants, sinister aristocrats, half-mad villagers, and a storyteller who claims to have invented writing itself. The land of Nevèrÿon is mired in a civil war over slavery, and pryn will also find herself--for a while--fighting alongside Gorgik the Liberator, from whom she will learn the cunning she needs as she journeys further and further south in search of a sunken city; for at history's dawn, some dangers even dragons cannot protect you from. The second volume in Samuel R. Delany's Return to Nevèrÿon cycle, Neveryóna is the longer of its two full-length novels. (The other is The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals.) An intriguing meditation on the power of language, the rise of cities, and the dawn of myth, markets, and money, it is a truly wonder-filled adventure. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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In the book's first appendix, Delany carries forward the scholarly conceit he had established for the "Culhar' Fragment" that is supposed to be the ancient basis for these stories. This time he adds to his fictional scholars the participation of an actual academic Charles Hoequist Jr., who wrote a response to the appendix of the first volume. Hoequist telegraphs that he is "in on the joke" by means of a passing reference to the Necronomicon in his first letter!
There is also a second appendix, where Delaney is unusually open and detailed (for a novelist) regarding not only his sources but the particular uses he has put them to. I would never have guessed that the book took its principal structure from a film, given how very concerned it is with text and inscription, and how it explicitly and repeatedly references the "linguistic turn" in twentieth-century philosophy.
I observe the remark in another review that these Return to Nevèrÿon books reward re-reading, and I'm sure it's true. In fact, I have it notably in mind to go back and re-read "Ashima Slade and the Harbin-Y Lectures" from Delany's Triton, which is an earlier segment of the semiotic experimentation in Nevèrÿon.