Ursula Le Guin 去世
Posted: 2018-01-23 18:28
科幻/奇幻小说作家 Ursula Le Guin 昨天去世，享年88岁。我看过她的三四本书，最喜欢的是 The Lathe of Heaven. 她是道家老子的粉丝，阴阳哲学与 feminism 理论结合在一起，给她的作品带来独特的风味。
十来年前我曾经听过她在见面会（好像是得什么奖）上读自己的一篇短篇小说，描述一群女人探险到北极，但从未公诸于众而是将冒险的经历埋在心里。当场差点听哭了，虽然那时根本不明白为什么。
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way ... dies-at-88
For evidence of this mainstream respect, a reader need look no further than the lifetime achievement honors bestowed on her at the 2014 National Book Awards — where she also delivered a fiery defense of the practice of literature as a whole.
"Hard times are coming," she warned, "when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We'll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries, realists of a larger reality."
