Los desposeídos

una utopía ambigua

Paperback, 382 pages

Castellano language

Published Aug. 15, 1983 by Minotauro.

ISBN:
978-84-450-7025-3
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La historia ocurre en el planeta doble Urras / Anarres. Los habitantes de Anarres son los descendientes de exiliados de Urras a causa de su participación en una revolución anarquista doscientos años antes de los sucesos que se relatan en el libro. Su régimen político es una especie de anarquismo taoísta, en un mundo extremadamente pobre en recursos. Los habitantes de Urras, por el contrario, han desarrollado una cultura urbana capitalista en un mundo que no impone tantos rigores para la supervivencia.

El protagonista, Shevek, es un científico anarquista que pretende desarrollar una teoría que permita la construcción de un ansible: un dispositivo de comunicación interestelar que supere las limitaciones de la física relativista y la velocidad de la luz. Shevek decide embarcarse en un arriesgado viaje hacia Urras con el objetivo de contactar con otros matemáticos y físicos que puedan hacer realidad las implicaciones prácticas de la misma.

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Enjoyable and thought provoking

I'm have only read this once before and remember thinking it was heavy which - while not putting me off re-reading - meant it never floated to prominence on my to-read list. This time I found it, not "lighter" per se, but something, certainly. Overall, it meant that I really enjoyed it in ways I wasn't expecting.

Structurally, I liked the interweaving twin timelines (in a book about the physics of simultaneity and the past, present and future being present together was a nice touch). And this theme was interesting to see having just read The River Has Roots and its riddles relying on the acceptance of a past, present and future.

But so much to think on freedom.

Science-Fiction die zum Nachdenken zwingt

Ein fantastisches Buch, das für mich neue Maßstäbe setzt. Dass sich Science Fiction gut für Gesellschaftskritik eignet ist bekannt, aber dieses Buch hebt das in neue Sphären. Es gibt kaum einen Aspekt der nicht thematisiert wird: Kapitalismus, Macht, Sexismus, Ausbeutung, Anarchismus und Solidargemeinschaften sind einige davon. Der solidarisch-anarchische Planet scheint zu Beginn des Buches wie eine Utopie, weil für uns unvorstellbar, aber die Autorin zeichnet das Bild der gerechten Gesellschaft so lebhaft, dass ich mir oft gedacht habe "Warum machen wir das eigentlich nicht auch so?". Aber im Laufe des Buches werden auch die möglichen Fallstricke aufgezeigt - die menschliche Natur lässt sich nämlich nicht ausschalten. Selbst in einer Solidargemeinschaft wird es immer Menschen geben, die egoistisch sind und nach Macht streben - auch wenn das System ihnen zumindest mehr Grenzen setzt, als ein kapitalistisches System. Es ist sicherlich kein einfaches Buch, immer wieder musste ich das Buch weglegen und …

Essential Reading für alle Sci-Fi Fans

...und erst recht diejenigen, die sich selbst als politisch links einordnen würden.

Der Protagonist Shevek lebt in einer anarchistischen Gesellschaft auf dem Mond Anarres, wo er sein Leben der Physik verschrieben hat. Das Buch erzählt abwechselnd aus der Vergangenheit und aus der Gegenwart, wo Shevek den Mond verlässt, um seine Forschungen in der kapitalistischen Gesellschaft auf dem Planeten Urras zu betreiben. Die beiden Handlungsstränge sind dabei sehr schön verwoben, immer wieder gibt es in der Gegenwart Momente, die im Kontext der vorigen Erzählung aus der Vergangenheit in einen anderen Kontext gerückt werden.

Keine der beiden Handlungsstränge ist jedoch konfliktfrei; in der Gegenwart muss Shevek sich in einem kapitalistischen System zurechtfinden, Machtspielchen mitspielen und sich selbst als Bauer im großen Schachspiel der Mächte auf Urras begreifen. Die Kapitel auf Anarres sind weniger akut konfliktreich, dafür erkunden sie umso mehr die positiven Seiten – aber, und das hat mir auch sehr gut …

Una obra maestra sobre la dicotomía individualidad - sociedad

Ursula K. Le Guin trata con maestría conceptos tan profundos y filosóficos como qué es la libertad en una sociedad organizada. Se acerca a cómo se organizan las sociedades mediante sus leyes y sistemas económicos. Y, además, te va descubriendo todo esto con una alternancia de capítulos entre una ubicación y otra bastante bien manejada.

Me costó que me enganchase al principio, pero luego me ha encantado. Para mí, a la altura de clásicos como Un Mundo Feliz, me ha hecho reflexionar mucho y me ha marcado.

Wonderful Thought Experiment

What would happen if people fed up with a capitalist society could start anew, on their own world, and implement a truly equal society? How would it compare? Is it really a better way of living? Or simply different?

All these questions are packed into this great novel. It was my favourite from the Hainish cycle, after The Left Hand of Darkness left me a bit disappointed. This one though was truly exciting.

reviewed The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (SF masterworks)

Review of 'The Dispossessed' on 'Goodreads'

Like all of Le Guin's work, The Dispossessed comes across as deeply informed. We are presented with a credible anarchist society based on the concept of mutual aid, which is constantly juxtaposed with the more familiar capitalist dystopia to present the unique challenges such a society may face -- the price of its people's freedom and where the new walls appear.

Un gran libro

Un libro bellissimo, che parla di anarchia più di quanto i testi anarchici criptici e volutamente astrusi alla comprensione abbiano mai fatto. La descrizione perfetta di una società capitalistica, patriarcale, guerrafondaia, classista in contrapposizione a chi ha effettuato la scelta di non volere più nulla di questo, di voler scientemente non possedere nulla di materiale o immateriale per poi in realtà condividere tutto. Certo nulla è perfetto e ci sarà sempre chi cercherà di esercitare il potere anche se in modo lieve, qualcosa scricchiola. Questo libro è entrato a far parte dei miei "libri fondamentali", quelli da dover leggere almeno una volta nella vita.

I got full rations: I earned them. I earned them by making lists of who should starve

More plot than most of her books, it still turns back into a person on a journey. Shevek is on a journey from his anarchic home to a capitalist world. What propels him from a simple world of shared struggles? Why leave? When he arrives can he accomplish his goals? Is there something he can do that the people there couldn’t do for themselves? Will he be trapped and neutralized by the soft prison of luxury?

And how can he return home? What awaits an anarchist who is seen to turn his back on the revolution?

I love the deep thinking about language and the practice of mutual aid in a land with few resources. I love the true struggle to stay good when the droughts hit. And the challenge that centralization and coordination always brings. Everything is dealt with in indirect ways that paint larger pictures just out of …

"Los desposeídos"

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Primero la historia

El personaje es un físico, lo que ya me predispone bien

Sin embargo, mi profesión es común en las novelas de ciencia ficción, y me pregunto cuánto habrá tenido eso que ver con elegirla.

Sin embargo, el personaje de LeGuin es un físico muy real. Hay algo extremadamente familiar en la constante introspección, el aislamiento que se siente aunque no se sufre, y la necesidad de poner todo lo demás a un costado para aprender algo acerca del funcionamiento del universo.

No me había sentido tan identificado con un personaje desde... bueno, desde el Severian de Gene Wolfe que me dió un nick para las redes.

La manera de narrar, con una aproximación desde dos tiempos, el presente de Shevek en Urras y su vida anterior en Anarris, en capítulos alternados, funciona muy bien.

Vamos aprendiendo de Shevek y de Anarris a medida que él va aprendiendo …

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