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title	:	Neveryna, Or, The Tale of Signs and Cities
author	:	Delany, Samuel R.
publisher	:	Wesleyan University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0819562718
print isbn13	:	9780819562715
ebook isbn13	:	9780585373065
language	:	English
subject	Fantastic fiction.
publication date	:	1993
lcc	:	PS3554.E437N4 1993eb
ddc	:	813/.54
subject	:	Fantastic fiction.

Neveryna

"The Nevron series is a major and unclassifiable achievement in contemporary American literature." Fredric R. Jameson "The tales of Nevron are postmodern sword-and-sorcery... Delany subverts the formulaic elements of sword-and-sorcery and around their empty husks constructs self-conscious metafictions about social and sexual behavior, the play of language and power, and above all the possibilities and limitations of narrative. Immensely sophisticated as literature... eminently readable and gorgeously entertaining." Washington Post Book World "Delany continues to surprise and delight... [His] playfulness is the kind that involves you in the flow, forces you to see details in a larger context, yet never lets you forget that what you are reading is, after all, nothing but artifice, a series of signs." New York Times Book Review "As much as any single writer, Samuel R. Delany is responsible for the new themes and techniques that have come to SF since the middle '60s... Delany's gift of creating believable alternate societies and ways of seeing the world is here in full flower. The underlying thread of all the stories is an intense examination of all the things language, customs, work patterns, children's lore that tie together a society." Newsday "I consider Delany not only one of the most important SF writers of the present generation, but a fascinating writer in general who has invented a new style." Umberto Eco "Complex and carefully crafted... his language is lovely, often approaching the poetic." Publishers Weekly

Page 2 BOOKS BY the Author Fiction The Jewels of Aptor The Fall of the Towers: Out of the Dead City The Towers of Toron City of a Thousand Suns The Ballad of Beta-2 Babel-17 The Einstein Intersection Nova Driftglass (stories) Equinox (The Tides of Lust) Dhalgren Triton Distant Stars (stories) Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand Return to Nevron: Tales of Nevron Neveryna Flight from Nevron Return to Nevron (The Bridge of Lost Desire) Driftglass/Starshards (collected stories) They Fly at iron Nonfiction The Jewel-Hinged Jaw The American Shore Heavenly Breakfast Starboard Wine The Motion of Light in Water Wagner/Artaud The Straits of Messina

Page 3 Neveryna, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities Some Informal Remarks Towards the Modular Calculus, Part Four Samuel R. Delany

Page 4 Wesleyan University Press Published by University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1983, 1988, 1993 by Samuel R. Delany All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the end of the book

Page 5 For Frank Romeo

Page 7 Contents 1. Of Dragons, Mountains, Transhumance, Sequence, and Sunken Cities, or: The Violence of the Letter 11 2. Of Roads, Real Cities, Streets, and Strangers 30 3. Of Markets, Maps, Cellars, and Cisterns 52 4. Of Fate, Fortune, Mayhem, and Mystery 74 5. Of Matrons, Mornings, Motives, and Machinations 91 6. Of Falls, Fountains, Notions, and New Markets 114 7. Of Commerce, Capital, Myths, and Missions 132 8. Of Models, Mystery, Moonlight, and Authority 154 9. Of Night, Noon, Time, and Transition 191 10. Of Bronze, Brews, Dragons, and Dinners 245 11. Of Family Gatherings, Grammatology, More Models, and More Mysteries 278 12. Of Models, Monsters, Night, and the Numinous 307 13. Of Survival, Celebration, and Unlimited Semiosis 341 Appendix A: The Culhar' Correspondence 381 Appendix B: Acknowledgments 397

Page 9 This nostalgia for a past often so eclectic as to be unlocatable historically is a facet of the modernist sensibility which has seemed increasingly suspect in recent decades. It is an ultimate refinement of the colonialist outlook: an imaginative exploitation of nonwhite cultures, whose moral life it drastically oversimplifies, whose wisdom it plunders and parodies. To that criticism there is no convincing reply. But to the criticism that the quest for 'another form of civilization' refuses to submit to the disillusionment of accurate historical knowledge, one can make an answer. It never sought such knowledge. The other civilizations are being used as models because they are available as stimulants to the imagination precisely because they are not accessible. They are both models and mysteries. Nor can this quest be dismissed as fraudulent on the grounds that it is insensitive to the political forces that cause human suffering...

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