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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Grafton; New Ed edition (9 May 1985)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0586060502
  • ISBN-13: 978-0586060506
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Off the Beaten Track...but Hilarious!, 29 Dec 2006
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This review is from: The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (Canopus in Argos: Archives) (Paperback)
This is the fifth and last of Doris Lessing's SF series. The first, third and fifth discuss the influence of the empires of Canopus and Sirius on other planets in the galaxy including Shikasta or Earth. In the process Ms. Lessing gives her take on Earth history and development. The second and fourth books, to give us a kind of holiday from these absorbing but taxing narratives are effectively fables which give a close look at episodes on particular planets. These two novels could be read on a stand-alone basis.

The other three however act as a medium for Ms. Lessing to reflect on the political and sociological development of peoples. Whereas 'Shikasta' and 'The Sirian Experiments' look in particular at Earth, 'The Sentimental Agents...' looks at a group of planets which are part of a dying but subsidiary empire somewhere in the galaxy and give Ms. Lessing the chance to give a brilliant and penetrating analysis of the relationship between government and ideology, and the way people need to develop their own psychological strength and understanding to develop resistance against the effects of propoganda.

This novel also contrives, often through the disastrous outcomes of good and not so good intentions, to be hilarious at times, and reminds me in fact of 'Gullivers Travels' which is the only other novel I can think of where a group of fictitious worlds are subjected to a similar analysis.

The book therefore provides a brilliant and slightly wicked finale to this series of novels which is well off the beaten track in terms of the corpus of Doris Lessing's work, and perhaps deserves to be better read than it is.
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