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The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire is a social satire written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and George Orwell, and focuses on the debasement of language in political rhetoric.
- Doris May Lessing
- 1983
1. Jan. 2001 · The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire. Doris Lessing. 3.96. 433 ratings29 reviews. The fifth volume of the author's "Canopus in Argos" series focuses on the madness and false promise of words, rhetoric-induced delusion, as suffered by a young Canopean official in the small Volyen Empire.
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The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire by Doris Lessing. From the book jacket: "In the previous Canopus novel, Doris Lessing has proffered her extraordinarily powerful vision of humankind by combining historical analogy and allegory, myth and augury.
The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire | Lessing, Doris | ISBN: 9780006547228 | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.
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1. Jan. 1994 · Having survived a brush with communism, Lessing was aware of the power and errant use of groups and rhetoric. In the Sentimental Agents she lays bare the mechanisms behind these forces; showing how they imprison us and how we might free ourselves; laying tracks for future generations. To an extent, she does this in her book 'Prisons ...
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- Doris Lessing
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- Doris Lessing
The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire. In this fifth volume of her venture into space, the magnificent Canopus in Argos series, Doris Lessing uses the conventions of space fiction for the purposes of social satire in the tradition of Voltaire and Swift.
23. Mai 1994 · 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.
- Doris Lessing
