The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen EmpireFrom Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the fifth and final instalment in the visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. 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. But one of these agents, Incent, succumbs to Undulant Rhetoric, and Agent