Return to Nevèrÿon

Return to Nevèrÿon
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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 0819562785
ISBN-13 : 9780819562784
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Book Synopsis Return to Nevèrÿon by : Samuel R. Delany

Download or read book Return to Nevèrÿon written by Samuel R. Delany and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-25 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of myth and literacy about a long-ago land on the brink of civilization. Vol 4 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.


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