The first in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.
Retrato impresionante de su propia vida, que se alza como la culminación de su tarea literaria, acaso porque tras su última e impactante novela, De nuevo, el amor, resultaba necesario descubrir la id
Es esta una obra que rezuma en sus contenidos ternura, deseo, pasividad, ambivalencia y hostilidad; todo un espectro de emociones. En sus líneas se relata la lucha entre hombres y mujeres, y las dimensiones del sexo y del amor. Con un compromiso fuera de lo comun, Doris Lessing escribe un brillante epitalamio que, gracias a su genialidad y humanidad, la han llevado a convertirse en una de las mas honestas novelistas del panorama literario anglosajon.
The fifth and final volume in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.
An extraordinary blend of fantasy and realism, this is classic Lessing, reissued here with a stunning new cover design. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London's Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the doctors of his incredible fantastical voyage, adrift on the ocean, landing on unknown shores, flying on the back of a huge white bird. Identified as Charles Walker, a Cambridge Classics professor, he is visited by family and friends, each revealing clues to the nature of his breakdown: both his young wife, Felicity, and his ...
En las últimas página de Dentro de mí, primer volumen de sus memorias, la autora se disponía a abandonar África con rumbo a Inglaterra. En este segundo volumen, reanuda la historia de su vida con la llegada en 1949 al depauperado Londres de posguerra sin nada mas que un hijo de corta edad, ciento cincuenta libras en el bolsillo y el manuscrito de su primera novela, Canta la hierba. Con un tono sincero y autocritico, rayano a veces en la perplejidad, evalua sus tropiezos sentimentales y sus actitudes politicas, analizando perspicazmente las circunstancias que la llevaron a rechazar el amor romantico y la revolucion socialista. No es, sin embargo, una confesion desde el arrepentimiento, sino un relato lucido desde una posicion de distancia moral y una clara conciencia de que el error forma parte inherente de la naturaleza humana. Trata pues, del paso de la juventud a la madurez, convirtiendo una peripecia personal en una reflexion ironica e inteligente sobre el mundo y la vida en general. Un libro de obligada lectura
This is Doris Lessing's follow-up to the first part of her autobiography, Under My Skin. Here, we move into the heyday of her career, sparked off by the international success of her first novel in 1950. She went on to forge a unique role for herself in British literary and political life.
The third in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle Canopus in Argos: Archives. It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.
Harriet and David Levatt defy the chaotic, unconstrained 1960s with a closely-guarded, nurturing family environment. Into an already large family, which Harriet tends while David works, their fifth child is born. Ben, an ugly, violent, demanding baby, is shockingly alien to their comfortable, kind home-his mother cannot love him and his father cannot even touch him. The four other children are afraid of him. Their external family and friends stay away. This novel explores a family''s-and by extension, society''s-attempts to deal with the brutality that exists within it, despite efforts to insulate members from it.
The story of the inner and outer life of Anna, a young writer, single mother and member of the Communist Party, struggling with crises both in her domestic and political life, this book was hailed as
