Flight from Neveryon
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.15 (800 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0819562777 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power, gender, and the nature of civilization. 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.. Ironically, however, he is sexually aroused by the iron slave collars of servitude. 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. In his four-volume series Return to Nevèrÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Taken slave in childhood, Gorgik gains his freedom, leads a slave revolt, and becomes a minister of state, finally abolishing slavery
A leap forward for fantasy This volume is by far the best one so far. The first book ("Tales of Neveryon") was a bunch of neat stories with ulterior meanings that were sometimes obvious and sometimes no so obvious, and the second novel was good but meandered a bit more than it needed to. Here, however, it all comes together. Delany seems far more focused here than in the other volumes. In the earlier stories Delany seemed more experimental than anything else, clo. "Historic" according to I should be at the gym. Delany's "Tale of Plagues and Carnivals" (a tale in "Flight from Nevèrÿon"), is a milestone in American literary history insofar as it was one of the first works of fiction, perhaps the first, at least among those we know of because they were subsequently published, to be informed by the beginning of the modern AIDS pandemic, the inauguration of the manuscript having been inspired by AIDS before the disease even had name.It . "Sublime" according to Melaina Lara. I read this for my college English course. At first it was a bit daunting, but since I had to stick with it for the class I pressed on. Suddenly all the words just started to flow and it quickly became an involving tale. I love the book so much that I've given it as a gift to more than a few of my friends.
"Delany's artistry as both writer and storyteller rises to the surface" in Return , originally published as The Bridge of Lost Desire ( LJ 9/15/87).Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. . LJ 's reviewer asserted that Flight "may be the most successfully experimental work yet from an author for whom language and story are inseparable" ( LJ 4/15/85). From Library Journal These two volumes conclude the story begun in Neveryona and Tales of Neveryon (Classic Returns, LJ 1/94)