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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
by Ursula K. Le Guin
As usual, LeGuin delivers a very brilliant and subtle tale. As much as I dislike the juxtaposing narratives of past and present, they came together very well in the end. The masterful way LeGuin set these parallel threads against each other, and then tied them up in the end left me feeling the way I usually do at the conclusions of her stories: breathless, fulfilled and melancholy.
And yet this must also have been one of her most didactic pieces of prose. After awhile the "you cannot buy the Revolution, you must BE the Revolution" line began to really grate, and one begins to hear LeGuin in Shevek a little too insistently, a little too repetitively.
It's a lovely story, and one I'm glad to have finally read after hearing so much about it. But the flavour grows a little bland after awhile, coiling and coiling as it does around themes that don't really develop.
And yet this must also have been one of her most didactic pieces of prose. After awhile the "you cannot buy the Revolution, you must BE the Revolution" line began to really grate, and one begins to hear LeGuin in Shevek a little too insistently, a little too repetitively.
It's a lovely story, and one I'm glad to have finally read after hearing so much about it. But the flavour grows a little bland after awhile, coiling and coiling as it does around themes that don't really develop.