Dhalgren is an 800+ page science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. ==Publishing history== ''Dhalgren'' was originally published in 1974 as a paperback original (a Frederik Pohl selection) by Bantam Books. The Bantam edition of Dhalgren went through 17 printings, selling close to a million copies. Subsequently, Dhalgren was republished by Gregg Press (1977), Grafton (publisher) (1992), University Press of New England (Wesleyan) (1996) and by Vintage, an imprint of Random House (2001), the latter two with an introduction by William Gibson (novelist). ==Critical reaction== Critical reaction to Dhalgren has ranged from high praise (both inside and outside the science fiction community) to extreme dislike (mostly within the science fiction community). Its lack of a linear plot, or even a discernable chronological narrative, its graphically-described homo- and heterosexuality, Delany's "modernist" verbal pyrotechnics, and use of stream of consciousness writing has given it a reputation as a difficult novel. It has often been compared to Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon because of the surreal style in which it is written. Theodore Sturgeon called Dhalgren "The very best ever to come out of the science fiction field ... a literary landmark." By contrast, Harlan Ellison hated the novel: "When ''Dhalgren'' came out, I thought it was awful, still do ... [...] I was supposed to review it for the L.A. Times, got 200 pages into it and threw it against a wall." Unprejudiced view of byplay between life concepts, aesthetics, ethics, and sexuality set in conditions that are intended by the author to be difficult to generalise accurately. The story can be read as a circular text like the epic work, Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. ==Description== It begins with a famous passage:
I took down this spoiler, or what I think was a spoiler anyway. Interested parties can look at the history of this page, I think. I don't think it was a spoiler, but I do think it was ludicrously wrong. On another subject, I strongly disagree with the claim that in the final chapter the meaning of the entire experience is laid out, even ambiguously. Gibson is right, the riddle is not solved. Would there be cries of anguish if this were removed? User:TimBray 07:21, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC) I added "kid" as one of the spellings of Kid's name. While it does make the name in its myriad forms look ridiculously complicated, I think that's the point. His apparent youth is an important part of the story. Anyway, I might just be being anal. User:The lesbian 19:42, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
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Dhalgren is an 800+ page science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. ==Publishing history== ''Dhalgren'' was originally published in 1974 as a paperback original (a Frederik Pohl selection) by Bantam Books. The Bantam edition of Dhalgren went through 17 printings, selling close to a million copies. Subsequently, Dhalgren was republished by Gregg Press (1977), Grafton (publisher) (1992), University Press of New England (Wesleyan) (1996) and by Vintage, an imprint of Random House (2001), the latter two with an introduction by William Gibson (novelist). ==Critical reaction== Critical reaction to Dhalgren has ranged from high praise (both inside and outside the science fiction community) to extreme dislike (mostly within the science fiction community). Its lack of a linear plot, or even a discernable chronological narrative, its graphically-described homo- and heterosexuality, Delany's "modernist" verbal pyrotechnics, and use of stream of consciousness writing has given it a reputation as a difficult novel. It has often been compared to Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon because of the surreal style in which it is written. Theodore Sturgeon called Dhalgren "The very best ever to come out of the science fiction field ... a literary landmark." By contrast, Harlan Ellison hated the novel: "When ''Dhalgren'' came out, I thought it was awful, still do ... [...] I was supposed to review it for the L.A. Times, got 200 pages into it and threw it against a wall." Unprejudiced view of byplay between life concepts, aesthetics, ethics, and sexuality set in conditions that are intended by the author to be difficult to generalise accurately. The story can be read as a circular text like the epic work, Finnegans Wake by James Joyce. ==Description== It begins with a famous passage:
''to wound the autumnal city.''What follows is an extended and increasingly hallucinatory trip through Bellona -- a city divorced from reality and reason. Some catastrophe has befallen Bellona. Cut off from the rest of the country, the city is a place unlike any other. Another moon appears in the evening sky, during the day the sun may exponential growth large, and street signs and landmarks shift constantly. The few people left in Bellona struggle with survival, boredom, and each other. The story's narrator is a nameless, left-shoeless drifter nicknamed (the) (K/k)id(d). He begins the novel apparently awakening from unconsciousness, and seems to have suffered significant memory loss, which recurs throughout the story; he also may be schizophrenic. Poet, hero, liar, Kid is a fascinating realization of the very instincts of the city itself. It is not until the final chapter of Dhalgren that the meaning of the entire experience is laid out, and even then it is elusive. The story ends:
''So howled out the world to give him a name.''
''The in-dark answered with wind.''
''But I still hear them walking in the trees: not speaking.'' ''Waiting here, away from the terrifying weaponry,'' ''out of the halls of vapor and light, beyond holland into the hills, '' ''I have come to''Much like Finnegans Wake, the unclosed closing sentence may be the beginning of the unopened opening sentence, turning the novel into an enigmatic circle. ==Quotes== William Gibson (novelist) calls Dhalgren ''"A riddle that was never meant to be solved."'' 1974 books Science fiction novels
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I took down this spoiler, or what I think was a spoiler anyway. Interested parties can look at the history of this page, I think. I don't think it was a spoiler, but I do think it was ludicrously wrong. On another subject, I strongly disagree with the claim that in the final chapter the meaning of the entire experience is laid out, even ambiguously. Gibson is right, the riddle is not solved. Would there be cries of anguish if this were removed? User:TimBray 07:21, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC) I added "kid" as one of the spellings of Kid's name. While it does make the name in its myriad forms look ridiculously complicated, I think that's the point. His apparent youth is an important part of the story. Anyway, I might just be being anal. User:The lesbian 19:42, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
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