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Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise of Urbogony
| Author: | Gheorghe Sasarman |
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Aqueduct Press, 2013 Original Romanian publication, 1975 |
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| Book Type: | Novel |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Squaring the Circle presents 24 fantastic tales by Gheorghe Sasarman, originally published in Romanian, to readers in English, thanks to the efforts of Ursula K. Le Guin, a great admirer of Sasarman's tales. Each tale marvelously depicts the world of a city through the eloquence of its architecture.
Eleanor Arnason writes of these tales: "Squaring the Circle reminds me of some of my favorite books: Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Angelica Gordodischer's Kalpa Imperial, and Ursula K LeGuin's Changing Planes. I don't know if there's a name for this kind of fiction Faux history? Fantastic geography? Imaginary anthropology? Whatever it is, I love it. Humans have always liked to hear about fabulous journeys and strange distant places. Othello told Desdemona, "of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline." Maybe books like this meet our need for amazing stories, now that the world is mostly mapped.
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