Twelve Corners of the Wind

Ursula K. Le Guin brings her stories together in "Twelve Corners of the Wind". Not by a random choice. A selection of early stories that he finds important in his writing career, looking back from today. It is a collection that falls into what painters call a retrospective. A roughly chronological study of the short stories he wrote in the ten years after his belated but courageous entry into the publishing world. In order to include the opportunity to follow the artist's development process among the benefits of the book, the stories are arranged in this collection more or less in the order of the date they were written.

Le Guin's first story was published in 1962. Since then, he has written nineteen novels and nine volumes of short stories, as well as many books of criticism, poetry and translation. Le Guin has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, five Hugo Awards, five Nebula Awards, the Kafka Prize, the Pushcart Prize and the American Academy and Institute of Letters D. Vursell Award, as well as the 2002 PEN/Malamud Award, which recognizes excellence in short stories. continues to build anarchist utopias and persistently warn humanity through dark utopias.

Whether his plans for the future are dark or optimistic, his concern is with the present, the given world, and the course of this world. Le Guin feeds on the realities of this world in their most naked and brutal form. It exposes these realities that have become ordinary, invisible, and absolute, primarily injustice. With the awareness that scientific and technological developments alone are not enough to create a more beautiful, more humane, more peaceful world, and that economic or scientific "advances" do not necessarily mean cultural or political freedom, it targets the mechanisms of power in all their manifestations and the ideologies that give them their power. His attitude is in favor of women, children, foreigners, homeless people and dispossessed people who are crushed between the wheels of that mechanism. If he produces stories about other worlds, other beings, other life forms, this is because he believes that another world is possible.



Number of Pages: 320

Year of Printing: 2011


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

Number of Pages: 320

First Print Year: 2011

Language Turkish