Continually reasserted are the right of the individual-sometimes alone, but often in conjunction with others-to his or her own thoughts and emotions, not dictated by society, or convention, or the State.Īdditional stories in the cycle include the novel Malafrena (1979), set in the Orsinia of the 1820s the Borges-like story "Two Delays on the Northern Line" (1979, anthologized in The Compass Rose 1982), containing two tangentially linked episodes of uncertain date and "Unlocking the Air" (1990, anthologized in Unlocking the Air and Other Stories 1996). Common to all the stories, however, are emotionally moving personal events-often, though not always, romantic-set against the backdrop of much larger political events such as wars and revolutions. The stories share few links except those derived from the use of a common geographical setting the only link between characters appears in the stories Brothers and Sisters and A Week in the Country, both of which deal with members of the Fabbre family (whose history is continued in the later story Unlocking the Air). Le Guin, most of them set in the imaginary country of Orsinia. Orsinian Tales is a collection of eleven short stories by American writer Ursula K.
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