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Documents relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire. Doris Lessing. Published by Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1983. ISBN 10: 0224021303 ISBN 13: 9780224021302. Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom. Seller Rating: Contact seller. Book First Edition. Used - Hardcover.
(Documents Relating to) The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire is a 1983 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing. It is the fifth book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series and comprises a set of documents that describe the final days of the Volyen Empire, located at the edge of our galaxy and under the influence of three other galactic empires, the benevolent Canopus, the tyrannical ...
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the fifth and final instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.‘The Sentimental Agents …’ is set in the declining Volyen Empire as the empires of Sirius and Shammat compete to overwhelm it with rhetoric and false sentiment. The Canopean Empire deploys covert agents to help the Volyens resist. But ...
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the fifth and final instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.‘The Sentimental Agents …’ is set in the declining Volyen Empire as the empires of Sirius and Shammat compete to overwhelm it with rhetoric and false sentiment.
The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire reads just like another book in the series and one wonders why Lessing bothered. It reads like the author herself was tiring in her efforts to keep this series afloat, perhaps she was obstinately ploughing ahead with her less than critically acclaimed series out of sheer obstinacy.
Focuses on the madness and false promise of words, rhetoric-induced delusion, as suffered by young Canopean official in the small Volyen Empire.
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.
