The second 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.
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 earth's climate has changed - it is colder than ever before - and Dann is now grown up and a general, and the man to whom everyone looks for guidance and leadership. This novel of love and ecology charts his adventures across the frozen wastes of the north, a journey that eventually leads to the discovery of a secret library.
Un asesinato es el punto de arranque de esta novela publicada en 1950, la primera de Doris Lessing, autora galardonada con el premio Príncipe de Asturias de las letras. Situada en la Suráfrica segregacionista, Canta la hierba describe la historia de una mujer blanca en el seno de una sociedad dividida por el color de la piel y en la que imperan la injusticia y la desesperación. Mary Turner, hija de unos pobres granjeros y nacida en África, se convierte en una joven urbana, trabajadora e independiente, hasta el día en que sorprende los cotilleos de sus amigas y decide que debe casarse para silenciarlos.
Víctimas de un complot palaciego, los niños Mara y Dann deben abandonar su familia y su país para escapar de una muerte segura. Emprenden así una gran aventura, durante la cual conocerán los valores y sentimientos que vinculan a los seres vivos por muy distintos que éstos sean, al tiempo que lograrán descubrir su propia identidad.
Cuatro relatos se sumergen en los vericuetos de la vejez. Desde la historia de dos ancianas que forman una familia ad hoc hasta el trance de una mujer humilde que lucha por encontrarse a sí misma en una casa acomodada, pasando por las peripecias de la esposa de un dictador o por el sino del hijo bastardo de una mujer casada y un militar britanico. Cuatro visiones tiernas pero crudas, reales pero fantasticas, sobre el inevitable proceso de senectud.
A selection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays. Articles on writers as diverse as Jane Austen, Muriel Spark, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Mikael Bulgakov sit alongside autobiographical looks at the beliefs that have shaped Lessing's thinking. There are pieces on the beloved cats that she has allowed to share her life and insightful looks at the Africa in which she grew up and London and England, the place where she made her home. The range of subjects, cultures and periods within these essays is huge but the collection is utterly consistent in one key regard: Doris Lessing's clear-eyed vision and clearly-expressed prose are present throughout.
Una alegoría con toques futuristas; un drama social londinense de raza y clase; una relación en la que la pasión en tiempo de guerra se convierte en una marchita obsesión durante la postguerra, y una trampa mortal en el seno de dos familias eroticamente entrelazadas. Los cuatro relatos que integran Las abuelas bien pueden servir como muetsra de la amplia panoplia de temas, estilos y generos literarios frecuentados pos Doris Lessing.
Selection of essays and writing from the acclaimed British writer. Funny, warm and nostalgic, they range across many decades and subjects. "Doris Lessing has changed the way we think about the world"
With the four short novels in this collection, Doris Lessing once again proves that she is unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition.
Doris Lessing's love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semi-feral creatures on the African farm where she grew up. This volume consists of her collection of cat stories, Particularly Cats and Rufus, and the memoir, The Old Age of El Magnifico.
Doris Lessing's two short novels A Home for the Highland Cattle, a wry portrait of African settler society, and The Antheap, set in the gold fields of the former Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), were originally published in Five (1953), a collection of Lessing's shorter fictional works. This Broadview edition includes both novels, as well as a critical introduction and a selection of primary source material, such as excerpts from interviews with Doris Lessing, short fiction by contemporary African women writers, reviews, and historical documents focussing on race and socio-economic conditions in the former Southern Rhodesia.
Stunning new edition of this classic African story collection 'It can be said of all white-dominated Africa that it was -- and still is -- the Old Chief's Country. So all the stories I write of a certain kind I think of as belonging under that heading; tales about white people, sometimes about black people, living in a landscape that not so very long ago was settled by black tribes, living in complex societies that the white people are only just beginning to study, let alone understand.' Doris Lessing, from the Preface. In this superb volume of African stories, Doris Lessing paints a magnificent portrait of the country in which she grew up. The cruelties of the white man towards the native, 'the amorphous black mass, like tadpoles, faceless, who existed merely to serve', the English settlers, ill at ease, the gamblers and moneymakers searching for diamonds and gold, and the presence, 'latent always in the blood', of Africa itself, its majestic beauty and timeless landscape: Doris Lessing draws them all together into a powerful, memorable vision.
