The Dispossessed
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Contributed by Twanda Mangano
Overview
Author
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Year Published
1974
Type
Fiction
Genre
Fantasy
About the Title

It has been suggested that Le Guin’s title is a reference to Dostoyevsky’s novel about anarchists, Demons (Russian: ????, Bésy), one popular English-language translation of which is titled The Possessed.[12] Much of the philosophical underpinnings and ecological concepts came from Murray Bookchin’s Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971), according to a letter Le Guin sent to Bookchin. Anarres citizens are dispossessed not just by political choice, but by the very lack of actual resources to possess. Here, again, Le Guin draws a contrast with the natural wealth of Urras, and the competitive behaviors this fosters.

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