The Dispossessed (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ursula K. Le Guin
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction
- Time of Work: The distant future
- Setting: The planet Urras and its moon Anarres
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Dystopian fiction, Utopian fiction
- Subjects: Politics, Revolutionaries, Gender roles, Communication, Future, Other worlds, Time, Utopias, Anarchism or anarchists, Physics or physicists, Societies
- Locales: Anarres (fictive), Urras (fictive)
Characters Discussed
Shevek, a physicist who studies time. Tall, lean, and long-haired, Shevek is a citizen of Anarres, a world populated seven generations earlier by the followers of Odo, a woman who developed and organized a syndicalist anarchist movement. Shevek, as a genius in a society that has become increasingly conformist to a collective will, has difficulty pursuing and publishing his work, a General Temporal Theory that promises to open possibilities for faster-than-light communication and travel. Against the objections of his society, he travels to the sister planet...
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