Doch dafür werden die Anarresti gelegentlich "gezwungen, auf eigenen Wunsch für einige Zeit wegzugehen", weil die Gesellschaft sie andernorts braucht - oder auch, weil sie einem Mächtigeren im Weg sind. Nicht nur die Urrasti, auch viele der Menschen auf Anarres sind hab- und machtgierig, intrigant und Karrieristen, obwohl es dort offiziell weder eine Hierarchie noch Eigentum gibt. Zu deutlich zeichnet sie die Schwächen und Mängel beider.
One place felt very dated to me: the overt sexism of Urras seemed drawn straight from1950 pulp fiction and advertising and lacked the subtlety of the arguments about economics and social structure that occupy the rest of the novel.ĭoch wollte Le Guin mit den Habenichtsen und ihrem Planeten weder ideale Menschen schildern, noch eine ideale Gesellschaft. While there are long passages debating the issues, as befits a book in the Utopian mode, this is also a book with a strong emotional core and character development. The main character is a brilliant physicist Shevet, so wrapped up in theory, that most of the novel is his slow learning of how Annares has drifted from Odo's teachings, but also how Urras for all its comforts was worse and why it would breed revolutionaries. Annares is the ambiguous Utopia of the subtitle. Annares is a large desert moon of Urras, settled by a self-titled anarchist group called the Odonians, after the revolutionary Odo, seen in the short story The Day before the Revolution. Though set in the future, the people of Urras and Annares are not future Earthlings, but, like us, descendant of the Hainish. This is a transition novel, where Le Guin is beginning to move from straight SF and fantasy, to a mix of literary, philosophical, and sociological concerns.
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