“Finally, it’s clear that the Hero does not look well in this bag. He needs a stage or a pedestal

or a pinnacle. You put him in a bag and he looks like a rabbit, like a potato.

That is why I like novels: instead of heroes they have people in them.”

Carisa reading The carrier bag theory of fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin (October 21, 1929 - January 22, 2018) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She has written novels, short stories, poems, children's books and essays. Cultural anthropology, Taoism and feminism had a strong influence on Le Guin's work. Many of her stories used anthropologists or cultural observers as protagonists, and Taoist ideas about balance and equilibrium have been identified in several writings. She has also translated the I Ching.

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