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Es ist die Geschichte einer gegenseitigen Verletzung, die Doris Lessing in diesen Erinnerungen aufgezeichnet hat, nüchtern und konkret, ohne in den Tonfall einer Abrechnung zu verfallen: »Ich versuchte unentwegt, mich dem Verlangen meiner Mutter zu entziehen, ich solle klüger als alle anderen sein.« Die Tochter, die in der Tat klüger werden sollte als viele andere, denkt zurück an den kolonialen Alltag im Rhodesien der dreißiger Jahre, an das ...

In ärmlichen Verhältnissen im Süden Afrikas aufgewachsen, heiratet Mary einen Farmer. Doch das weiße Paar hat sich wenig zu sagen, und der finanzielle Ruin rückt Jahr für Jahr näher. Als ein schwarzer Farmarbeiter als Diener ins Haus geholt wird, wird Mary für ihr rassistisches Verhalten bestraft. »Afrikanische Tragödie« erzählt nicht nur die Geschichte einer missglückten Ehe, sondern demonstriert die erstickende Kraft kolonialer Herrschaft in...

In the last years of his life, a contemplative Roman senator embarks on one last epic endeavor: to retell the history of human creation and reveal the little-known story of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic coastal wilderness. The Clefts have neither need nor knowledge of men, childbirth is controlled through the cycles of the moon, and they bear only female children. But with the unheralded birth of a strange new c...

This story of a family, spanning most of the twentieth century, has its fulcrum in the Sixties, that contradictory and embattled decade about which argument becomes louder each day. The youth of that time, bursting old bonds and demanding freedoms, were seen by some of their elders in a manner not at all as they saw themselves, as romantic idealists, but as deeply damaged people. Old Julia, the clan's matriarch, knows why. "You can't have two ...

The only collection of literary essays and criticismby one of the most distinguished writers of our timeToward the end of his long life, Goethe said that he had only just learned how to read. In this collection of the very best of Doris Lessing's essays -- never before published in book form -- we are treated to the wisdom and keen insight of a writer who has herself learned, over the course of a brilliant career spanning more than half a cent...

Ben Lovatt can never fit in. To those he meets, he seems awkward: too big, too strong, inhumanly made. He baffles and he terrifies: those who do not understand him want him locked up.His own mother locked him up, then, guilty, she liberated him. But her unyielding love for him corroded their family, this fifth child broke the home into bits. And now he has come of age and again finds himself bewildered and alone. He searches in the faces of th...

Doris Lessing joined the Communist Party in London, and here she explores the allure Communism held for artists, intellectuals, and social reformist idealists in the '50s. A fascinating meditation on the psychological, sociological and historical roots of a generation's behavior, Lessing offers insight into the ideological and political madness of the post-war era. Lessing also evokes the bohemian life she led in post-war London: her work in t...

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Kedilere yakin yasayan herkesin bildigi gibi onlar hakkinda genelleme yapilamaz. Her biri apayri karaktere sahip yaratiklardir kediler, basbayagi bireydirler. Has bir yazar olan Lessing de bunun gayet farkinda oldugu icin kedi irkina bir güzelleme yazmak yerine, hayatina girmis kedilerin hikayelerini, hicbir süslemeye basvurmadan anlatmayi tercih ediyor. Ama bazi kedilerin güzelligiyle büyülenmekten de kendini alamiyor Bej renkli, ... ön ayakl...

The landmark novel by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.

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Two reissues in the Flamingo "Modern Classic" series.

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