Crafting with Ursula : Kim Stanley Robinson on Ambiguous Utopias
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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Dispossessed as It Previously Is Like an Ordinary Novel
Would you be a different kind of individual in a different society? What would you regard to be important? And how would you live your life? How would you spend your time? All these questions come up in the utopian novel by the addition of a thought experiment. So, dispossessed as it formerly i's the same kind of a novel as an ordinary novel. It has a protagonist, it has secondary characters and minor characters - it'sa sort of bildung roman for a a scientist within this altern society. In that sense, it's the same as a flaubert novel. It's like sentimental education.
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