"The Diary of the Rose"
Title | "The Diary of the Rose" |
Year for Search | 1976 |
Authors | Le Guin, Ursula K[roeber](1929-2018) |
Secondary Authors | Dann, Jack [Mayo](b. 1945), and Dozois, Gardner R[aymond](1947-2018) |
Secondary Title | Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology |
Pagination | 4-31 with an editors' note (2-3) |
Date Published | 1976 |
Publisher | Random House |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | Female author, US author |
Annotation | Authoritarian dystopia in which psychiatry is used as a political tool with electroshock for dissent. The story focuses on a young psychiatrist and her growing awareness of the way the system works. Liberalism is considered a political psychosis needing to be treated by electroshock. Intellectualism produces negative thinking that leads to psychosis. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 99-124; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume One Where on Earth (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 83-106; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 99-125. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | Female author (1929-2018) |
Full Text | 1976 Le Guin, Ursula K[roeber] (1929-2018). “The Diary of the Rose.” Future Power: A Science Fiction Anthology. Ed. Jack [Mayo] Dann and Gardner [Raymond] Dozois (New York: Random House, 1976), 4-31 with an editors’ note (3-4). Rpt. in her The Compass Rose: Short Stories (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 99-124; and in her The Real and the Unreal. Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Volume One Where on Earth (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2012), 83-106; and in the one volume edition The Real and the Unreal: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin (New York: Saga Press, 2016), 99-125. PSt Authoritarian dystopia in which psychiatry is used as a political tool with electroshock for dissent. The story focuses on a young psychiatrist and her growing awareness of the way the system works. Liberalism is considered a political psychosis needing to be treated by electroshock. Intellectualism produces negative thinking that leads to psychosis. Female author. |