The Day Before the Revolution [short story]

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "The Day Before the Revolution" is a short story originally published in the collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters.

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Hermoso. Ursula compone a una veterana revolucionaria a la que todo un movimiento tiene en un pedestal con sus aspectos humanos y sus reflexiones mundanas.
Le Guin at her best showing even great heroes as ordinary people.
For fans of stories of socio-political revolution The Day Before the Revolution, by Ursula K. Le Guin, will have appeal .
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Publicado originalmente en 1974 en la revista Galaxy Science Fiction, este relato, ganador de los premios Nebula en 1974 y Locus en 1975, tiene como protagonista a Odo, la líder de la revolución que dio lugar al odonianismo, sociedad anarquista imaginaria.
Ursula K. Le Guin identifica esta sociedad con el anarquismo, que para ella «es la más idealista, y la más interesante de todas las teorías políticas».
Pero lo que realmente le interesa a la autora es contar la historia de una mujer; no sólo como ideóloga de la revolución, sino como persona, y así lo manifiesta en su presentación: «Agradecí sumamente cuando Odo apareció de entre las sombras y atravesó el abismo de lo probable pidiendo un relato, no sobre el mundo que show more construyó, sino sobre sí misma». show less
Supoño que non ter leídas outras obras de Le Guin, como por exemplo, Os desposeídos, me deixa un pouco fora da historia. Inda así, sempre merece a pena ler a autora. Un relato sobre a vellez, a enfermidade e a morte.
Moi destacables as ilustracións de Arnal Ballester.

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Ursula K. Le Guin was born Ursula Kroeber in Berkeley, California on October 21, 1929. She received a bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1951 and a master's degree in romance literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance from Columbia University in 1952. She won a Fulbright fellowship in 1953 to study in Paris, where she met and married show more Charles Le Guin. Her first science-fiction novel, Rocannon's World, was published in 1966. Her other books included the Earthsea series, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, The Lathe of Heaven, Four Ways to Forgiveness, and The Telling. A Wizard of Earthsea received an American Library Association Notable Book citation, a Horn Book Honor List citation, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1979. She received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014. She also received the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. She also wrote books of poetry, short stories collections, collections of essays, children's books, a guide for writers, and volumes of translation including the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu and selected poems by Gabriela Mistral. She died on January 22, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
The Day Before the Revolution {short story}; The Day Before the Revolution [short story]
Original title
The Day Before the Revolution [short story]
Original publication date
1974
People/Characters*
Taviri; Laia Asieo Odo; Noi
Important places
A-Io, Urras; Anarres
Dedication*
In memoriam Paul Goodman,
1911-1972
First words*
Die Stimme des Redners klang lauter als ein leerer Bierwagen, der über eine Betonstraße fuhr, und die Zuhörer standen zusammengedrängt auf dem Kopfsteinpflaster.
Die Stimme des Sprechers war so laut wie ein leerer Bierwagen auf einer gepflasterten Straße, und die Teilnehmer der Versammlung drängten sich, Pflastersteine, während die große Stimme über sie hinwegdröhnte.
Last words*
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Zweiundsiebzig Jahre, und sie hatte sich nie die Zeit genommen zu lernen, wie diese Blumen hießen.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Zweiundsiebzig Jahre, und sie hatte nicht mal die Zeit gehabt, sich nach ihrem Namen zu erkundigen.
Original language
English
Disambiguation notice
First appeared in Galaxy.
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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
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813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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