Angélica Gorodischer
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was
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In eleven chapters, Kalpa Imperial’s multiple storytellers relate the story of a fabled nameless empire which has risen and fallen innumerable times. Fairy tales, oral histories, and political commentaries are all woven tapestry-style into Kalpa Imperial: beggars become emperors, democracies become dictatorships, and history becomes legends and stories.
Kalpa Imperial is much more than a simple political allegory or fable. It is also a celebration of the power of storytelling. Gorodischer and Ursula K. Le Guin are a well-matched, sly and delightful team of magician-storytellers. Rarely have author and translator been such an effortless pairing. Kalpa Imperial is a powerful introduction to the writing of Angélica Gorodischer, a novel that will enthrall readers already familiar with the worlds of Le Guin.
Translated from the Spanish by Ursula K. Le Guin.
- Author: Angélica Gorodischer
- Publisher: Small Beer Press
- Publication: August 01, 2003
- ISBN: 9781931520058
- Size: 6.4 in. x 8.5 in.
- 246 pages
- Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Angélica Gorodischer (1928–2022), daughter of the writer Angélica de Arcal, was born in 1928 in Buenos Aires and lived most of her life in Rosario, Argentina. From her first book of stories, she displayed a mastery of science-fiction themes, handled with her own personal slant, and exemplary of the South American fantasy tradition. Oral narrative techniques are a strong influence in her work, most notably in Kalpa Imperial, which since its publication has been considered a major work of modern fantasy narrative.
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) is the author of numerous works of poetry and prose, and in various modes including realistic fiction, science fiction, fantasy, young children’s books, books for young adults, screenplays, essays, verbal texts for musicians, and voice texts for performance or recording. She published more than a hundred short stories, two collections of essays, twelve books for children, five volumes of poetry, two of translation, and nineteen novels. Among the honors her writing has received are a National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, five Hugo Awards, and five Nebula Awards.
