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This is a typical view around here. Obviously to Le Guin they are more than that. But what would one of the great writers of our time, approaching the end of he

• jasonisalive 12y ago
  She's very good, but great? I don't know about that. I've really enjoyed many of her books, but at heart they seem to me to be the books of an author who isn't particularly conscious of her privilege level in the world. Furthermore she never really seemed to move beyond a very American-centric strain of 60s radical politics in her thinking and aesthetics. If you're a certain type of American, I'm sure you could be convinced that she's a truly rich and resounding thinker. People on the other side of that fence would probably wish she was interested in speaking to the whole human audience.
  • jkaunisv1 12y ago
    That's surprising because in every one of her stories I've read, there is a stark awareness of racial, social and class differences. She is one of the most aware authors I can think of. She writes about differences between men and women, the rich and the poor, capitalists and socialists, leaders and servants, personal family events and large-scale world events. I am not American and your comment comes across as very pigeonholing. What other part of the human audience do you wish she'd speak to?