La Main Gauche de La Nuit (Ldp Science Fic) (French Edition)

Sur Gethen, la planète glacée que les premiers hommes ont baptisée Hiver, il n'y a ni hommes ni femmes, seulement des êtres humains. Des androgynes qui, dans certaines circonstances, adoptent les caractères de l'un ou l'autre sexe. Les sociétés nombreuses qui se partagent Gethen portent toutes la marque de cette indifférenciation sexuelle. L'Envoyé venu de la Terre, qui passe pour un monstre aux yeux des Géthéniens, parviendra-t-il à leur faire entendre le message de l'Ekumen ? Ce splendide roman a obtenu le prix Hugo et a consacré Ursula Le Guin comme un des plus grands talents de la science-fiction. (http://www.amazon.fr/Main-gauche-nuit-Ursula-Guin/dp/2253113166) http://www.amazon.fr/Main-gauche-nuit-Ursula-Guin/dp/2253113166 [Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969) > One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin. For more than 40 years I've been recommending this book to people who want to try science fiction for the first time, and it still serves very well for that. One of the things I like about it is how clearly it demonstrates that science fiction can have not only the usual virtues and pleasures of the novel, but also the startling and transformative power of the thought experiment. > In this case, the thought experiment is quickly revealed: "The king was pregnant," the book tells us early on, and after that we learn more and more about this planet named Winter, stuck in an ice age, where the humans are most of the time neither male nor female, but with the potential to become either. The man from Earth investigating this situation has a lot to learn, and so do we; and we learn it in the course of a thrilling adventure story, including a great "crossing of the ice". Le Guin's language is clear and clean, and has within it both the anthropological mindset of her father Alfred Kroeber, and the poetry of stories as magical things that her mother Theodora Kroeber found in native American tales. This worldly wisdom applied to the romance of other planets, and to human nature at its deepest, is Le Guin's particular gift to us, and something science fiction will always be proud of. Try it and see – you will never think about people in quite the same way again. [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice Sur Gethen, la planète glacée que les premiers hommes ont baptisée Hiver, il n'y a ni hommes ni femmes, seulement des êtres humains. Des androgynes qui, dans certaines circonstances,adoptent les caractères de l'un ou l'autre sexe.Les sociétés nombreuses qui se partagent Gethen portent toutes la marque de cette indifférenciation sexuelle. L'Envoyé venu de la Terre, qui passe pour un monstre aux yeux des Géthéniens, parviendra-t-il à leur faire entendre le message de l'Ekumen ? Ce splendide roman a obtenu le prix Hugo et a consacré Ursula Le Guin comme un des plus grands talents de la science-fiction. -- 4ème de couverture