Retour à Nevèrÿon

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Cette série plonge dans un monde d'épées et de sorcellerie, où la dure réalité s'entremêle à des éléments fantastiques. Les récits explorent des relations complexes et des dilemmes moraux auxquels sont confrontés des personnages naviguant aux confins de la civilisation et de la nature sauvage. Chaque conte dévoile de nouvelles couches de ce cadre complexe et provocateur. Elle offre une profonde réflexion sur la condition humaine au milieu de l'aventure et du péril.

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Tales of Neveryon

Samuel R. Delany

260pages
10 heures de lecture

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In his four-volume series <i>Return to Nevèrÿon</i>, 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 Nevèrÿon volumes 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.