/lit/ - Literature

>>4885564
Agreed

>>4593387
>Atwood
Why not Le Guin?
I'm seriously regretting not finding her years ago

>>4566129
>Californian
>Ursula K. Le Guin

Sorry. Haven't read any Steinbeck yet.

>>3173332
>>3173332
>>3173332
I see you

Uhhhmmmm. Well I have been trying to get into Le Guin, though I haven't been on a fiction track in a long time.
The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Dispossessed, come up all the time.

"Such groups are closed, positing “the other” as outsider. They exclude, first, women; then, men of a different age, or kind, or caste, or nation, or level of achievement, etc. — exclusions that reinforce the solidarity and power of the excluders. Perceiving any threat, the “band of brothers” joins together to present an impermeable front.

"Male solidarity appears to me to have been the prime shaper of most of the great ancient institutions of society — Government, Army, Priesthood, University, and the new one that may be devouring all the others, Corporation. The existence and dominance of these hierarchic, organized, coherent, durable institutions goes back so far and has been so nearly universal that it’s mostly just called “how things are,” “the world,” “the division of labor,” “history,” “God’s will,” etc.

"As for female solidarity, without it human society, I think, would not exist. But it remains all but invisible to men, history, and God..."

Ursula K. Le Guin
USA
>Science fiction/fantasy writer. Went to high school with PKD. Still alive.
Works
>The Dispossessed
>The Left Hand of Darkness
>Tales from Earthsea