Глаз цапли. Резец небесный

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Роман Урсулы Ле Гуин «Глаз цапли» повествует о разгоревшемся на планете Виктория конфликте между иерархическим, построенным на насилии и подчинении миром Столицы и обществом Шанти, потомков земных ссыльных-пацифистов, не приемлющих культа силы не только в отношениях между людьми, но и применительно к враждебной на первый взгляд природе планеты. Конфликт приобретает масштаб, несоизмеримый с его реальным содержанием, и превращается в борьбу между двумя противоположными стилями жизни.

Роман «Резец небесный» — сюрреалистическая фантазия. Сны его главного героя, Джорджа Орра, меняют реальность — непредсказуемо и странно. И этим даром стремятся завладеть разные люди, далеко не всегда преследующие благие цели.

448 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2004

About the author

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.