Tales of Nevèrÿon (Return to Neveryeon 1)
Samuel R. Delany
In his four-volume series Return to Neveryeon, 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 Neveryeonvolumes in trade paperback.The eleven stories, novellas, and novels in Return to Neveryeon'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.
المجلد:
1
عام:
1993
الإصدار:
1
الناشر:
Wesleyan University Press
اللغة:
english
ISBN 10:
081956270X
ISBN 13:
9780819562708
سلسلة الكتب:
Return to Neveryeon
ملف:
EPUB, 480 KB
IPFS:
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english, 1993