Floresta é o Nome do Mundo

eBook, 157 pages

Português language

Published Oct. 14, 2019 by Morro Branco.

ISBN:
978-65-86015-09-6
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ASIN:
B08JVH26ZB
4 stars (39 reviews)

VENCEDOR DO HUGO AWARD

O planeta Athshe era um verdadeiro paraíso, coberto por densas e colossais florestas. Seus habitantes, humanoides com pouco mais de um metro de altura e corpos cobertos por pelos verdes e sedosos, viviam em paz.

Então outros vieram. Muito mais altos e de pele lisa, eles caíram do céu e começaram a desbravar o território ao seu redor, enxergando os nativos como meros animais selvagens. Eles vieram de um mundo em ruínas e superpovoado, faminto por matérias-primas, madeira e grãos: a Terra.

Sem precedentes culturais para tirania, escravidão ou guerra, os nativos encontram-se à mercê de seus novos e brutais colonizadores.

Quando o desespero atinge níveis inimagináveis, uma revolução é inevitável. Cada golpe contra os invasores será um golpe contra sua própria humanidade. Mas os conquistadores alienígenas os ensinaram a odiar.... e não há como voltar atrás.

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5 stars

(original com links → sol2070.in/2024/04/floresta-e-o-nome-do-mundo-ursula-le-guin/ )

"Floresta é o Nome do Mundo" (The Word for World Is Forest, 1972) é uma das consagradas ficções da imortal Ursula K. Le Guin. Ganhou o prêmio Hugo, talvez os mais importante da literatura de ficção científica. Como o nome e capa (da bela edição da Morro Branco) sugerem, é uma história ecológica.

Hoje, 52 anos depois da publicação, a sinopse pode soar batida: homens com as piores intenções aterrizam num planeta de natureza prístina e são confrontados pelo povo nativo alienígena. Como em Avatar, a tragédia básica por trás desse contexto interestelar é a velha e recorrente exploração geno-ecocida — também muito viva fora da ficção, principalmente em regiões onde ainda há florestas e indígenas, como o Brasil.

O que faz toda a diferença é Le Guin, com sua sutil sensibilidade para interações entre corações e mentes, o olhar mágico da natureza e …

(Anti-)Colonialism in Space

4 stars

A novella about colonialism and fighting it, but also about ecology, indigenous knowledges, dreaming and waking, perception and reality, and hope in the face of seemingly overwhelming power.

LeGuin is scarily good at making colonialism tangible from both the perspective of the colonised and the coloniser, and she's doing so in her usual unpretentious and precise way.

After reading lots of white male apolitical hard sci-fi, this was a breath of fresh air – or, as the Athsheans would put it, sanity.

Highly recommended.

Essential

5 stars

Genuinely amazed by how much Le Guin fits into what's pretty much just a novella. Colonialism, racism, environmental destruction, and toxic masculinity, sure, but also musings on the mental machinations therein. Particularly appreciated the way she plays with language -- the chapters from the point of view of the humans, particularly the truly awful Davidson, are brutal, while the chapters from the point of view of the Athsheans start off lyrical, almost dreamlike, but change over the course of the book as their ways of thinking are polluted by the Terrans. Highly recommended.

Learning nonviolence

3 stars

I don't generally enjoy science fiction, and although I do love Ursula le Guin's theory and ideas I have never managed to finish any of her books before this one. Her writing is good, but I find that science fiction often gets too tied up in hammering home its analogies without remembering to tell a good story. The Word for World is Forest does not have this problem.

Ostensibly, this is a novel about two races of human. The first are Terrans (from Earth) who have landed on a distant planet and are cutting down its rich forested surface because there is no wood left on Earth. The other are Athsheans, who are colonised, enslaved in all but name, and are being forced to live their lives in a "terran" way by sleeping at night and working in the daytime, for example. The book weaves in the injustices of settler …

trees

5 stars

it's a fairly short and straightforward story about resistance to colonization, but embedded in it is a kind of complicated discussion about the legitimacy of violence. It seems like it was in part a commentary on the Vietnam War (which is even alluded to at one point).

Don Davidson is one of the more thoroughly unpleasant viewpoint characters I've read; fortunately he is meant to be villainous, & at any rate it's only from his point of view for about a third of the book. His motivation, worldview & actions are disturbing but accurate for a certain sort of man.

Krieg im wald

4 stars

Das buch behandelt kolonialismus, hat also viele sehr gewalttätige und rassisitische szenen. Die geschichte ist eigentlich ganz einfach: 2 gruppen menschen, die in sehr verschiedenen umgebungen aufgewachsen sind, treffen aufeinander und hauen sich die köppe ein. Trotzdem war es spannend zu lesen, denn die Athsheaner haben eine interessante art, an die dinge heranzugehen.

Review of 'The Word for World is Forest' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This was a weird tone from Ursula. Davidson in particular was jarring. As I approached the halfway point I thought, I’m getting Vietnam vibes… I looked it up and that does seem to be the intention. I don’t know that that worked for me 100% because it was more guilty of projecting ourselves in the present into the far future. I think that always happens to some degree, but Davidson is pretty egregious.

Having said that, the point is still valid. I don’t know that we’ll ever really outgrow imperialist/colonialist/exploitative tendencies. Depends on how optimistic or pessimistic you are about the future, I guess.

I felt like Davidson was a caricature, but as the story went on he became an interesting case study in self-deception and warped reality. Given the past few years in the US, I couldn’t brush it aside as unbelievable.

Favorite quote:
But even the most unmissionary …

Review of 'The Word For World Is Forest' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

A short but an interesting allegory on racism and colonialism, although I found the characters somewhat stereotyped.

The colonialists are humans on a remote planet where the indigenous people are used as slaves, even though regulations forbid it, while their forest-covered world is denuded and turned into a monoculture.

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