A Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny

'A Rose for Ecclesiastes', is the story of one man's personal renewal, and how his renewal redeems an entire population and their planet. Gailinger will have to learn to live with a new comprehension: humanity comes with limits. He then tries to end his life, but Zelazny won't let his protagonist take the easy way out. Gailinger's transformation unfolds when he is humbled by love, when he realises that he is nothing in his lover's eyes. He, the successful son of a too-demanding father, learns that one can succeed and lose at the same time. The Mothers understand his message and halt the genocide, but Braxa the dancer rejects him as a man. Gailinger ruptures the order of Martian culture. But the red rose symbolises also a loving heart, compassion, desire, everything humanity possesses and a very old, alien civilisation has lost. 1st printing of 1979 edition:- Contents: Shadowjack / A Zelazny Tapestry / An Amber Tapestry / A Rose For Ecclesiastes / The Furies (Pencil Art by Michael. But if you dont mind a series, definitely read the Chronicles of Amber first. The rose represents what is not useful in se, just beautiful (and ephemeral but replacable, like a single individual). I would suggest for a standalone: Lord of Light or Creatures of Light and Darkness, although A Night in the Lonesome October is just about my favorite thing Roger Zelazny wrote. Sometimes this is by request of a copyright holder, sometimes it is because a better alternative is available, but sometimes it is because of an issue with the file itself. In contrast with his nihilism, the rose cloned by his fellow scientist becomes the real ambassador of humanity. A Rose For Ecclesiastes Hugo 1964 Nominee Short Fiction, 1963 Zelazny, Roger Download This file might have issues, and has been hidden from a source library. To his Martian guests, he reads out the beginning of the Book of Ecclesiastes because he believes in nothing… All is vain, as vain as he, the poet, the vainest of men. Yet, Gailinger is not the best ambassador to convince the Martians to forgo their collective suicide.

This reminds me that I had promised a commentary.Ī flower on desert Mars can give hope to a dying race. Launched by the classic 1963 short story A Rose for Ecclesiastes, Zelazny soon won the Hugo Award for Best Novel with And Call Me Conrad and two years.

A Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny