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Doris Lessing
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Doris Lessing
The Good Terrorist
ISBN: 9780007498789 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: 4th Estate Язык: Английский Аннотация
A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era and winner of the Nobel Prize for Fiction.
In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desperately to become involved in terrorist activities far beyond their level of competence. Only Alice seems capable of organising anything. Motherly, practical and determined, she is also easily exploited by the group and ideal fodder for a more dangerous and potent cause. Eventually their naive radical fantasies turn into a chaos of real destruction, but the aftermath is not as exciting as they had hoped. Nonetheless, while they may not have changed the world, their lives will never be the same again … -
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To Room Nineteen: Collected...
ISBN: 9780007322275 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Fourth Estate Язык: Английский Аннотация
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a collection of some of her finest short stories.For more than four decades, Doris Lessing’s work has observed the passion and confusion of human relations, holding a mirror up to our selves in her unflinching dissection of the everyday.From the magnificent ‘To Room Nineteen’, a study of a dry, controlled…
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Imerohi ei ole müüdav ja te...
ISBN: 9789916616079 Год издания: 2021 Издательство: SA Kultuurileht Язык: Эстонский Аннотация
Armastatud inglise kirjaniku ja nobelisti Doris Lessingi (1919–2013) Aafrika-lood ilmusid esmakordselt 1951. aastal kogumikus „This Was the Old Chief’s Country“ ja kolm neist lugudest jõudis Loomingu Raamatukogu esimeses aastakäigus pealkirja all „Imerohi ei ole müüdav“ ka eesti lugejateni. Lugude aines pärineb peamiselt Lessingi lapsepõlvest, millest suurema osa veetis ta vanemate farmis Rodeesias, ja samuti tema nooruseaastatest. Doris Lessing oli 30-aastane, kui ta Londonisse elama asus, kuid Aafrika jäi nii tema südames kui ka loomingus alati väga olulisele kohale. Kogumiku lugudes visandab Lessing meisterlikult pilte Aafrika loodusest, ent veelgi hingelähedasemad on tema jaoks mustanahaliste põliselanike ja valgete koloniseerijate omavahelised suhted ning maailmavaatelised küsimused, mis avanevad lugejale ilustamatult autori tundliku ja terava pilgu läbi. Lisaks 1957. aastal Valda Raua tõlkes ilmunud kolmele jutule, „Vana pealik Mshlanga“, „Imerohi ei ole müüdav“ ja „Leopardi-George“, on uues valimikus ka lood „Päikesetõus rohtlas“, „Väike Tembi“ ja „Talv juulikuus“, mis pole varem eesti keeles ilmunud. Samuti leiab raamatu lõpust tõlkija Krista Kaera saatesõna „Doris Lessing ja Aafrika“ -
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The Temptation of Jack Orkn...
ISBN: 9780007396474 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Fourth Estate Язык: Английский Аннотация
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the second volume of her collected short stories.
Lessing is unrivalled in her ability to capture the complexities of relationships, and the stories in this wonderful collection have lost none of their original power.
Two marriages, both middle class, liberal and ‘rather literary’, share a shocking flaw, a secret ‘cancer’. A young, beautiful woman from a working-class family is courted by a very eligible, very upmarket man. An ageing actress falls in love for the first time but can only express her feelings through her stage performances because her happily married lover is unobtainable. A dedicated, lifelong rationalist is tempted, after the death of his father, by the comforts of religious belief.
In this magnificent collection of stories, which spans four decades, Lessing’s unique gift for observation, her wit, her compassion and remarkable ability to illuminate human life are all remarkably displayed. -
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Under My Skin: Volume One o...
ISBN: 0060926643 Год издания: 1995 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский Аннотация
"I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by . . . robust and efficient hands."
This, the first volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography, begins with her childhood in Africa and ends on her arrival in London in 1949 with the typescript of her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, in her suitcase.
The book is distinctive, as challenging and as wholly original as anything Doris Lessing has ever written. It recalls her own mind as a child, and the life of a child, with almost overwhelming immediacy, mapping the growth first of her consciousness, then, in adolescence, of her sexuality, and later, as a young woman, of her political beliefs. The African landscape (described with great lyricism), her often angry and combative relationship with her parents, her intense awareness of her own body, her passionate involvement with other people and indeed with everything around her are all here very, very powerfully present. The force of these memories, and the detail which which she is able to recall them, bear comparison only with Gosses Father and Son.
There can be few modern autobiographies so revealing of the mind of their creator. Under My Skin shows a woman uncompromising, from the beginning, in every aspect, who breaks all the rules, who battles at every turn against her upbringing and environment, who looks on the world clear and hard; and yet who also displays a softness, a wonderful sense of humor, a compassion for human failure.
Though she does not describe the process directly, it is abundantly evident to the reader how her childhood and adolescent experiences were absorbed through those "skins too few" and how they made the personality that has produced the novels and stories which began with The Grass is Singing and ended (for the moment) with The Fifth Child. Under My Skin shows - among many other things - how completely the life and work of one of the great writers of the twentieth century are of a single and indestructible piece. -
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The Sun Between Their Feet:...
ISBN: 9780007404902 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Fourth Estate Язык: Английский Аннотация
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s ‘Collected African Stories’, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
‘As for these stories – when I write one, it is as if I open a gate into a landscape which is always there. Time has nothing to do with it. A certain kind of pulse starts beating, and I recognise it: it is time I wrote another story from that landscape, external and internal at the same time, which was once the Old Chief’s Country.’ Doris Lessing, from the Preface
This much-acclaimed collection of stories vividly evokes both the grandeur of Africa and the glare of its sun and the wide open space, as well as the great, irresolvable tensions between whites and blacks. Tales of poor white farmers and their lonely wives, of storm air thick with locusts, of ants and pomegranate trees, black servants and the year of hunger in a native village – all combine to present a powerful image of a continent which seems incorruptible in spite of all the people who plough, mine and plunder it to make their living. In Doris Lessing’s own words, ‘Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.’ -
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Doris Lessing Three-Book Ed...
ISBN: 9780007572632 Год издания: 2018 Язык: Английский Аннотация
This collection brings together three of Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s most acclaimed novels.Her first novel, The Grass is Singing, is the story of Mary, a new wife, lonely and trapped in the African bush, until she turns to Moses, the black cook, for kindness and understanding.A landmark of twentieth-century literature, The Golden Notebok is a powerful account of Anna Wulf, a woman searching for her personal and political identity, recording her emotional and creative lives in notebooks of different colours.And in The Good Terrorist, a group of naive revolutionaries sets out to change the world, only to find themselves involved in a protest movement of escalating violence.