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- The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire is a social satire written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and George Orwell, and focuses on the debasement of language in political rhetoric.
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The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire is a social satire written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and George Orwell, and focuses on the debasement of language in political rhetoric.
- Doris May Lessing
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- 1983
Jan 1, 1994 · Having survived a brush with communism, Lessing was aware of the power and errant use of groups and rhetoric. In the Sentimental Agents she lays bare the mechanisms behind these forces; showing how they imprison us and how we might free ourselves; laying tracks for future generations.
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Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire is an indictment of the ways in which man misuses his powers of speech (and the power of speeches) and of this self-flattering sentiments about emotion. But the indictment is tempered - and enhanced - by the brilliantly acute insight into human behavior that Doris Lessing brings ...
Jan 1, 1983 · The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire. Doris Lessing. 3.96. 431 ratings29 reviews. The fifth volume of the author's "Canopus in Argos" series focuses on the madness and false promise of words, rhetoric-induced delusion, as suffered by a young Canopean official in the small Volyen Empire.
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The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire. In this fifth volume of her venture into space, the magnificent Canopus in Argos series, Doris Lessing uses the conventions of space fiction for the purposes of social satire in the tradition of Voltaire and Swift.
May 23, 1994 · The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire Paperback – 23 May 1994. by Doris Lessing (Author) 4.1 22 ratings. Book 5 of 5: Canopus in Argos: Archives Series. See all formats and editions. From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the fifth and final instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.
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