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Chargement... The Sirian Experiments: The Report by Ambien II, of the Five (1981)par Doris Lessing
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Fuck that was boring. I must have read half of it, what a waste of fucking time. ( ) This is my second reading of this book, and this time I read it immediately after 'Shikasta', to which it is a companion piece. It's fair to say that this book does not stand on its own and would even be baffling if one had not read Shikasta first. Unlike the other books in the Canopus in Argos Archives series, this one is closely coupled to the first. However it provides an interesting second perspective on that work. Where Shikasta was from the points of view firstly of Canopus and later various people of the stricken Shikasta, 'The Sirian Experiments' is told by a single narrator: Ambien II of Sirius, Canopus' galactic rival and neighbour. Sirius is a materialistic empire. Its technology has conquered transport, communication, ageing, mortality, physical labour. But its immortal citizens have nothing to do: there is an existential crisis in the empire. Ambien II is one of the Five, immortal technocrats who semi-secretly run the Sirian Empire. Her interest in and envy of Canopus draws her to Rohanda, where she encounters the Canopean agent Klorathy. Klorathy shows her things on Rohanda/Shikasta which makes her begin to question herself and her Empire. Ambien II is quite a dry and at times obtuse narrator (think of an immortal university bureaucrat and you might get the idea), so parts of this book can be heavy going at times. The structure is not innovative like Shikasta's. It is interesting to regard it as a very long companion document to Shikasta. It tells a somewhat long-winded tale of galactic evolution. Ambien II, one of the Five real rulers of the Sirian Empire, describes the Empire's experiments on Rohanda (later known as Shikasta) and her growing awareness, fostered by Canopus, that Sirius is not all that different from Shikasta after all. Spiritual growth in a science fiction setting as a comment on man's inhumanity to man. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Voici l'histoire, re dige e de sa main, d'Ambien II, membre des Cinq - l'organisation pre sidant aux destine es de Sirius, l'une des trois civilisations galactiques tre s avance es qui se disputent entre autres la mainmise sur la plane te Shikasta, notre Terre. Fonctionnaire compe tente et consciencieuse, elle a depuis des sie cles pour ta che de superviser les expe riences sociobiologiques d'envergure que me nent les Siriens sur l'ensemble de leurs Plane tes Colonise es, sans un instant remettre en cause le bien-fonde de telles pratiques. Jusqu'a ce que sa route croise celle de Klorathy, un Canope en ayant pour mission d'assurer l'e le vation des peuplades shikastiennes. A son contact, peu a peu, ine luctablement, et en assistant aux catastrophes survenant sur la Terre, Ambien II va prendre conscience des limites et de rives de sa propre nation, s'e loigner des moeurs de sa socie te d'origine jusqu'a inte grer des ide es plus progressistes - et questionner tant l'histoire officielle que la sienne." , [4e de couv.] Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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