“L'unica cosa che rende la vita sopportabile è non sapere che cosa verrà dopo.”
Ursula K. Le Guin libro La mano sinistra delle tenebre
La mano sinistra delle tenebre
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin è stata una scrittrice e glottoteta statunitense, autrice di fantascienza e di fantasy.
Ha vinto cinque premi Hugo e sei premi Nebula - i massimi riconoscimenti della letteratura fantastica - ed è considerata una delle principali autrici di fantascienza. La profondità e attualità dei suoi temi, che spaziano dal femminismo all'utopia e al pacifismo, hanno reso i suoi romanzi noti e apprezzati ben oltre il tradizionale circolo di lettori di genere. Tra le sue opere si ricordano in particolare La mano sinistra delle tenebre e I reietti dell'altro pianeta . Wikipedia

“L'unica cosa che rende la vita sopportabile è non sapere che cosa verrà dopo.”
Ursula K. Le Guin libro La mano sinistra delle tenebre
La mano sinistra delle tenebre
p. 156
da The Fisherwoman's Daughter; citato in Oriana Palusci, Da un mondo all'altro: Ursula LeGuin e la storia delle donne, introduzione a Il giorno del perdono, p. 5
Ursula K. Le Guin libro La mano sinistra delle tenebre
La mano sinistra delle tenebre
p. 133
“Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.”
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Section 5
Hainish Cycle, The Word for World Is Forest (1972)
“I’d rather get bad news from an honest man than lies from a flatterer.”
Origine: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 2 “Palaces” (p. 79)
“The Bones of the Earth” (p. 139)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Origine: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 11 (pp. 346-347)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Origine: Hainish Cycle, City of Illusions (1967), Chapter 1
Origine: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 3 (Master Hand)
“Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.”
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Origine: Hainish Cycle, The Telling (2000), Ch. 2, §2 (p. 32)
Origine: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 4, "Kalessin"
Origine: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 4, "Magelight" (Arren and Ged)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Origine: Hainish Cycle, (1974), Chapter 12 (p. 359)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Prologue
Hainish Cycle, Rocannon’s World (1966)
Origine: Earthsea Books, Tehanu (1990), Chapter 10, "The Dolphin"
“Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.”
“Dragonfly” (p. 201)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
Origine: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 12, "The Dry Land"
“The more defensive a society, the more conformist.”
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Origine: Hainish Cycle, City of Illusions (1967), Chapter 4
Origine: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 2 “Palaces” (p. 72)
Origine: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 1, "The Rowan Tree"
“The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.”
Origine: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 5, "Sea Dreams"
Ursula K. Le Guin libro The Lathe of Heaven
Origine: The Lathe of Heaven (1971), Chapter 10 (Orr)
“In the self-important, Falco reflected, there is always room for a little more self-importance.”
Ursula K. Le Guin libro The Eye of the Heron
Origine: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 5 (p. 66)
“How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?”
“The Finder” (p. 67)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
“The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.”
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Origine: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 18 “On the Ice” (p. 252)
Origine: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 7
Ursula K. Le Guin libro Lavinia
Origine: Lavinia (2008), p. 184
Ursula K. Le Guin libro The Eye of the Heron
Origine: The Eye of the Heron (1978), Chapter 10 (p. 151)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Origine: Hainish Cycle, City of Illusions (1967), Chapter 2
“The Field of Vision” p. 243 (originally published in Galaxy, October 1973)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
“Manipulated, one manipulates others.”
Origine: Earthsea Books, The Other Wind (2001), Chapter 2 “Palaces” (p. 92)
“There’s no way to use power for good.”
“The Finder” (p. 42)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
“They do.”
Origine: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Ged and Arren)