![]() In her essay Le Guin addresses several problems of previous utopias (including The Dispossessed) and looks for solutions in Taoism and anthropological theories (especially from Claude Lévi-Strauss and Victor Turner), which leads her to propose new standards concerning content and literary form of utopia. In my paper, I will depict her criticism on utopias and compare the two utopias within this context. But Le Guin has written more that is relevant for the utopian discourse, especially an essay that criticises historical utopias in general and proposes standards for a new kind of utopia: A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be (1982) and she wrote a second, also anarchist utopia: Always Coming Home (1985). ![]() ![]() ![]() Le Guin’s first utopia, The Dispossessed (1974), is widely recognised as one of the most convincing critical or open-ended utopias. ![]()
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