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The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire is a social satire written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and George Orwell, and focuses on the debasement of language in political rhetoric.
This fifth book brings us to the Volyen Empire - small, in rapid decline, and a vortex of chaos - as the empires of Sirius and Shammat vie for its control with their favorite weapons, rhetoric and false sentiment.
Jan 1, 1983 · The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire. Doris Lessing. 3.95. 435 ratings29 reviews. The fifth volume of the author's "Canopus in Argos" series focuses on the madness and false promise of words, rhetoric-induced delusion, as suffered by a young Canopean official in the small Volyen Empire.
Jan 1, 1994 · The Sentimental Agents of the Volyen Empire plays its part in disseminating the findings of psychological research; it's a rare jewel of a book.
The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire by Doris Lessing. From the book jacket: In this fifth volume of her venture into space, the magnificent Canopus in Argos series, Doris Lessing uses the conventions of space fiction for the purposes of social satire in the tradition of Voltaire and Swift.
Doris Lessing/s The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire Political activity, at least in its current form, requires a closed structure, a mentality of "us" versus "them," an allegiance to certain groups often based on culturally constructed boundaries such as race, gender, or nationality.
May 23, 1994 · ‘The Sentimental Agents …’ is set in the declining Volyen Empire as the empires of Sirius and Shammat compete to overwhelm it with rhetoric and false sentiment. The Canopean Empire deploys covert agents to help the Volyens resist.
