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Le Livre de Hain, Intégrale, Tome 2

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Il y a plusieurs milliers d’années, les humains du monde de Hain ont colonisé de nombreuses planètes, mais leur déclin a entraîné la fin des voyages stellaires et l’isolement de chacune d’elles. Aujourd’hui, une organisation interplanétaire, l’Ekumen, envoie des émissaires partout dans l’espace dans un but précis : reconstituer une civilisation interstellaire qui regroupera tous les peuples.Ursula K. Le Guin signe ici l’un des chefs-d’œuvre de la science-fiction, un cycle visionnaire récompensé par trois prix Hugo, deux prix Nebula, deux prix Locus et un Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.Le second des deux tomes de cette édition intégrale supervisée par l’autrice avant sa disparition regroupe deux romans – dont Le nom du monde est forêt –, treize nouvelles ainsi que trois textes inédits en France, une chronologie et des notes.Nul doute que, par son imaginaire, Ursula K. Le Guin a éveillé les plus nobles qualités de ses lecteurs. Xavier Mauméjean, Le Monde.Ursula K. Le Guin est l’une des figures les plus importantes de l’imaginaire. Lloyd Chéry, Le Point Pop.Une icône de la littérature. Stephen King.Une conteuse remarquable. Catherine Dufour.Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Anne-Judith Descombey, Pierre-Paul Durastanti, Patrick Dusoulier, Sébastien Guillot, HenriLuc Planchat et Marie Surgers.

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Published November 2, 2023

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Her recent publications include the novel Lavinia, an essay collection, Cheek by Jowl, and The Wild Girls. She lived in Portland, Oregon.

She was known for her treatment of gender (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Matter of Seggri), political systems (The Telling, The Dispossessed) and difference/otherness in any other form. Her interest in non-Western philosophies was reflected in works such as "Solitude" and The Telling but even more interesting are her imagined societies, often mixing traits extracted from her profound knowledge of anthropology acquired from growing up with her father, the famous anthropologist, Alfred Kroeber. The Hainish Cycle reflects the anthropologist's experience of immersing themselves in new strange cultures since most of their main characters and narrators (Le Guin favoured the first-person narration) are envoys from a humanitarian organization, the Ekumen, sent to investigate or ally themselves with the people of a different world and learn their ways.

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