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The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire
Engelsk Paperback
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From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the fifth and final instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.‘The Sentimental Agents …’ is set in the declining Volyen Empire as the empires of Sirius and Shammat compete to overwhelm it with rhetoric and false sentiment. The Canopean Empire deploys covert agents to help the Volyens resist. But one of these agents, Incent, succumbs to ‘Undulant Rhetoric’, and Agent Klorathy must go to Volyen to help him see through the empty words that have beguiled him.Once more employing alien races to identify human failings, Lessing uses social and political satire to show how we misuse speech (and speeches) and delude ourselves with self-aggrandizing notions about the primacy of emotion. Her renowned insight into human behaviour goes hand in hand here with a vein of humour that sees her writing in the tradition of Voltaire and Swift.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780006547228
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0006547222
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
23 maj 1994
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
130mm
Højde:
197mm
Forlag:
HarperCollins Publishers
Oplagsdato:
23 maj 1994
Forfatter(e):
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