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This paper aims at examining the dual narrative structure and the influence of Taoism in Ursula K. Le Guin’s science fiction, City of Illusions (1967). Walter Benjamin, in “The Storyteller: Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov,” classified the evolution of narratives into three different stages: the age of traditional stories, of novels, and of information. And he warned the danger of declining of storytelling at the age of information. Le Guin has shared a similar concern and attempted to restore stories in her novels. This paper consists of five parts. The first is devoted to profile Benjamin’s concern on the problem of the death of stories in the age of information. The second is a comparative analysis of two different forms of narratives, information in Shing’s city and stories in the exiles’ forest in City of Illusions. Through the comparison, the problem of informational narrative has been investigated in the story of a two-minded man. The third part discusses the different features between time of stories and of novels in order to illustrate the influence of Taoism on this novel. The fourth part explores the features of Taoist science fiction by discussing Le Guin’s strategy of interweaving stories and information in the form of science fiction.
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Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller, ” Information, Ursula K. Le Guin, Taoism, SF, the Dual Narrative Structure
