In this series, I’ll be working my way through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea works and analyzing her prose chapter by chapter. Spoilers follow.
A Description of Earthsea
Length: 21 pages
I don’t think there’s much to say about “A Description of Earthsea.” It is what it says it is, though I enjoyed seeing Le Guin’s anthropological thinking at work.
It was interesting to see Le Guin put in plain text what the differences between witch and sorcerer and wizard and mage are (cultural). I hadn’t thought about the written languages of Earthsea being comparable to Chinese. I did especially enjoy the dig into the evolution of religion in the Kargish lands.
Now we’re on to The Other Wind.
Until next time!
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