Neveryona or: The Tale of Signs and Cities - Couverture souple

Delany, Samuel R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 055301434X ISBN 13 : 9780553014341

Editeur : Bantam Books, 1983

Synopsis

Book by Delany Samuel R

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. Wesleyan University Press has reissued the long-unavailable Nevèrÿonvolumes in trade paperback. The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Nevèrÿon's four volumes chronicle a long-ago land on civilization's brink, perhaps in Asia or Africa, or even on the Mediterranean. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. Does this contaminate his mission -- or intensify it? Presumably elaborated from an ancient text of unknown geographical origin, the stories are sunk in translators' and commentators' introductions and appendices, forming a richly comic frame.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Books
• Date d'édition: 1983
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 055301434X
• ISBN 13: 9780553014341
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible