Trouble on Triton

An Ambiguous Heterotopia

Samuel R. Delany, Kathy Acker

• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press
• ISBN:
  9780819571953
• Sujet: Littérature
• Sous-sujet: Science-fiction

In a story as exciting as any science fiction adventure written, Samuel R. Delany's 1976 SF novel, originally published as Triton, takes us on a tour of a utopian society at war with... our own Earth! High wit in this future comedy of manners allows Delany to question gender roles and sexual expectations at a level that, 20 years after it was written, still make it a coruscating portrait of "the happily reasonable man," Bron Helstrom -- an immigrant to the embattled world of Triton, whose troubles become more and more complex, till there is nothing left for him to do but become a woman. Against a background of high adventure, this minuet of a novel dances from the farthest limits of the solar system to Earth's own Outer Mongolia. Alternately funny and moving, it is a wide-ranging tale in which character after character turns out not to be what he -- or she -- seems.

Table des matières

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• On Delany the Magician: A Foreword, by Kathy Acker
• 1. Der Satz
• 2. Solvable Games
• 3. Avoiding Kangaroos
• 4. La Geste d’Helstrom
• 5. Idylls in Outer Mongolia
• 6. Objective Knowledge
• 7. Tiresias Descending
• Appendix A: From The Triton Journal
• Appendix B: Ashima Slade and the Harbin-Y Lectures
• About the Author