Salas
Salas is an Anarresti composer who becomes Shevek’s friend.
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Spoiler-freeSalas is an Anarresti composer who becomes Shevek’s friend. He writes difficult music but finds that syndicates and audiences prefer work judged more immediately useful or communal. He hides part of his artistic life rather than openly abandon it. Salas helps Shevek see that conformity harms artists as well as scientists. His later fate is not given.
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