Los desposeídos by Ursula K. Le Guin5/15/2023 ![]() ![]() I read The Dispossessed when I was way too young to "get it" and I honestly remembered very little except for the scene at the beginning where Shevek lands on Urras and the guard getting hit in the head and killed by a rock. I never cared much for coming of age books as a teenager, but the few chapters she spends on the topic probably would have spoken more to me then than any coming of age book i know of. He had assumed that if you removed a human being’s natural incentive to work - his initiative, his spontaneous creative energy - and replaced it with external motivation and coercion, he would become a lazy and careless worker."īeyond that, she manages to describe certain phases of teenagers incredibly well. Just like Anarresti, they were simply busy getting things done. They did not stand about sullenly waiting to be ordered to do things. "But all the people he met, and all the people he saw, in the smallest country village, were well dressed, well fed, and, contrary to his expectations, industrious. ![]() A particular joke stuck especially with me, flipping a common argument on its head: ![]() ![]() Le Guin manages a surprising shift in narrative well, giving us the perspective of an anarchist looking at a capitalist society. Wonderful and well written book tackling more issues than you would think could fit into the pages it has. ![]()
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