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Title	:	Dhalgren
Author	:	Samuel R. Delany
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 836 pages
Published	:	January 7th 2014 by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (first published January 1975)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Fantasy

Dhalgren

Samuel R. Delany

Kindle Edition | Pages: 836 pages

Rating: 3.77 | 8258 Users | 960 Reviews

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A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled. But others are drawn to the devastated city, among them the Kid, a white/American Indian man who can't remember his own name. The Kid is emblematic of those who live in the new Bellona, who are the young, the poor, the mad, the violent, the outcast--the marginalized.

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Original Title:	Dhalgren ASIN B00HE2JK7G
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Nebula Award Nominee for Novel (1975), Locus Award Nominee for Best Novel (1976)

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I have to keep mentioning this; timelessness because the phenomenon irritates the part of the mind over which times passage registers, so that instants, seconds, minutes are painfully real; but hours--much less days and weeks--are left-over noises from a dead tongue. Something has happened in the city of Bellona. It has been cut off from the rest of the United States; most of the citizens have fled, and now you can only reach the city on foot across a dilapidated bridge. In Roman Mythology,

I read a lot of Samuel R. Delany's sci-fi when I was young, and all the way up through "Einstein Intersection" (aka "A Fabulous, Formless Darkness") and "Nova", I loved his work. Yet...somewhere around "Triton" he went badly off the rails. The same kind of thing happened to Piers Anthony and Roger Zelazny, but it their cases it was simply the lure of quick, large paychecks for Bad Fantasy Novels. Delany...fell into another trap. He positioned himself as the face of Black Queer High-Lit

Probably 2.5 stars....There is a lot going on in this novellots of references to mythology, I think there are deliberate parallels to Joyces Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and a lot of exploration of what it means to be an artist and to live an artistic life.Our unnamed protagonist begins the adventure when he encounters (and has sex with) a woman who turns into a tree, a dryad. It is she who ensures that he receives the chains that will mark him as special in the place where he is

''Dhalgren' is pure top-drawer, high-end Great Books Literature, but it also is an annoying Post-Modernism takedown of EVERYTHING regarding humanity and our creative and architectural conceits (in ALL definitions of the words!). So, the novel is horrendously fricking looooonnnnngggg because the author, Samuel Delany, takes us readers on a slow-moving, if vivid, literary and mythological magical mystery tour of ALL of the decaying fruits of civilization when generative forces go missing. A

Scorpions, come out and plaaaay!I don't recall much about The Warriors (saw it a long time ago and was probably drinking at the time) but that screenshot could easily be a scene from Dhalgren: The matching vests! The hairstyles! The unbridled homoeroticism!Dhalgren doesn't have much plot to speak of; most of the action is character-based. The protagonist does a lot of urban exploration whilst getting into the occasional gang fight and/or sex orgy. The lack of overarching plot is the only reason



Dhalgren, a book with a reputation that precedes it...kind of. More on that in a moment.The book is more of an experience than a story. For me, it was a memorable and mixed affair I'm happy to have had but also happy to move on from. For others it's one they'll return to again and again trying to understand exactly what it was they read. In a way this echoes what the protagonist of the book goes through. If you do intend to read it I would try to go into it knowing as little about it as