Deze serie duikt in het fictieve land Orsinia en beschrijft de tumultueuze geschiedenis ervan, van een middeleeuws koninkrijk tot de omwentelingen van de 20e eeuw. De verhalen verweven persoonlijke drama's met ingrijpende historische gebeurtenissen, waarbij diepgaande thema's als liefde, plicht en identiteit worden verkend. Geplaatst tegen de achtergrond van suggestieve landschappen, vangen de verhalen de blijvende geest van een natie die gekenmerkt wordt door traditie, revolutie en veerkracht. Het biedt een rijk tapijt van menselijke ervaringen binnen een unieke geopolitieke setting.
Na Całą Orsinię składają się wszystkie teksty Ursuli K. Le Guin osadzone w Orsinii: powieść Malafrena (1979), trzy piosenki, zbiór opowiadań Opowieści orsiniańskie (1976) oraz dwa dodatkowe opowiadania.Pomysł kraju zwanego Orsinią przyszedł Ursuli Le Guin do głowy w 1949 roku podczas studiów w Radcliffe. Kolejne teksty cyklu powstawały w późniejszych latach, publikowane były w różnych zbiorach opowiadań oraz w tygodniku "The New Yorker".
The inaugural volume of Library of America’s Ursula K. Le Guin edition gathers her complete Orsinian writings, enchanting, richly imagined historical fiction collected here for the first time. Written before Le Guin turned to science fiction, the novel Malafrena is a tale of love and duty set in the central european country of Orsinia in the early nineteenth century, when it is ruled by the Austrian empire. The stories originally published in Orsinian Tales (1976) offer brilliantly rendered episodes of personal drama set against a history that spans Orsinia’s emergence as an independent kingdom in the twelfth century to its absorption by the eastern Bloc after World War II. The volume is rounded out by two additional stories that bring the history of Orsinia up to 1989, the poem “Folksong from the Montayna Province,” Le Guin’s first published work, and two never before published songs in the Orisinian language. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
North to Orsinia and the boundaries between reality and madness... South to discover Antarctica with three ladies from Chile... West to find an enchanted harp and the borderland between life and death... and onward to all points on and off the compass.Contents:The Author of the Acacia Seeds and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics (1974)The New Atlantis (1975)Schrödinger's Cat (1974)Two Delays on the Northern Line (1979)SQ (1978)Small Change (1981)The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb (1978)The Diary of the Rose (1976)The White Donkey (1980)The Phoenix (1982)Intracom (1974)The Eye Altering (1974)Mazes (1975)The Pathways of Desire (1979)Gwilan's Harp (1977)Malheur County (1979)The Water Is Wide (1976)The Wife's Story (1982)Some Approaches to the Problem of the Shortage of Time (1979)Sur (1982)
All of the stories set in award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin's fictional European nation of Orsinia, gathered together for the first time.