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Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007378678
A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307777638
A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad."
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061967870
Far from resting on her laurels, Lessing goes from strength to strength. Ben's half-human ignorance, paranoia, and rage are magnificently imagined and vividly present on every page. The condition of the outsider has hardly ever before in fiction been portrayed with such raw power and righteous anger. Few, if any, living writers can have explored so many forbidding fictional worlds with such passion and conviction. — Kirkus Reviews The poignant and tragic sequel to Doris Lessing's bestselling novel, THE FIFTH CHILD. At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path in life. From London and the south of France to Brazil and the mountains of the Andes. Ben is tossed about in a tumultuous search for his people, a reason for his being. How the world receives him, and, he fares in it will horrify and captivate until the novel's dramatic finale.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770890220
In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief. The Nobel Prize-winning author of more than thirty books, Doris Lessing is one of our most challenging and important writers.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307390615
In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous pyschological adventure that takes him from a spinning raft in the Atlantic to a ruined stone city on a tropical island to an outer-space journey through singing planets. As he travels in his mind through memory and the farther reaches of imagination, his doctors try to subdue him with ever more powerful drugs in a competition for his soul. In this provocative novel, Lessing takes us on a harrowing voyage into the rarely glimpsed territory of the inner mind.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0394568281
A leading English historian presents a satirical novel in which the poet, gardener, and space traveller, Oi Paz, arrives to take possession of Earth and falls victim to terrestrial bureaucrats and other fumblers.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007455577
The fifth and final book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:872954748
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307777676
As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring -- no longer exists. This novel. Doris Lessing's brilliant excursion into the terrifying stretch of time between youth and old age, is her journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness: on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with self that lets her, finally, come truly of age.
Author : Lily Brooks-Dalton
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812998900
“A remarkable and gifted debut novel” (Colson Whitehead) about two outsiders—a lonely scientist in the Arctic and an astronaut trying to return to Earth—as they grapple with love, regret, and survival in a world transformed. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL FILM THE MIDNIGHT SKY, DIRECTED BY AND STARRING GEORGE CLOONEY Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, is consumed by the stars. For years he has lived in remote outposts, studying the sky for evidence of how the universe began. At his latest posting, in a research center in the Arctic, news of a catastrophic event arrives. The scientists are forced to evacuate, but Augustine stubbornly refuses to abandon his work. Shortly after the others have gone, Augustine discovers a mysterious child, Iris, and realizes that the airwaves have gone silent. They are alone. At the same time, Mission Specialist Sullivan is aboard the Aether on its return flight from Jupiter. The astronauts are the first human beings to delve this deep into space, and Sully has made peace with the sacrifices required of her: a daughter left behind, a marriage ended. So far the journey has been a success. But when Mission Control falls inexplicably silent, Sully and her crewmates are forced to wonder if they will ever get home. As Augustine and Sully each face an uncertain future against forbidding yet beautiful landscapes, their stories gradually intertwine in a profound and unexpected conclusion. In crystalline prose, Good Morning, Midnight poses the most important questions: What endures at the end of the world? How do we make sense of our lives? Lily Brooks-Dalton’s captivating debut is a meditation on the power of love and the bravery of the human heart. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SHELF AWARENESS AND THE CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS “Stunningly gorgeous . . . The book contemplates the biggest questions—What is left at the end of the world? What is the impact of a life’s work?”—Portland Mercury “A beautifully written, sparse post-apocalyptic novel that explores memory, loss and identity . . . Fans of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven and Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora will appreciate the Brooks-Dalton’s exquisite exploration of relationships in extreme environments.”—The Washington Post
Author : Darshana Goswami
Publisher : Epitome Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Individuation (Psychology) in literature
ISBN : 9789380297200
Doris Lessing, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007, is one of the leading writers of our time. Her corpus encompasses a wide range of themes and concerns such as female identity, race-relations and dystopic visions of the future. This book makes a critical study of the different aspects of individual conscience as portrayed in the novels of Doris Lessing. It provides the broader contexts which nurtured Lessing's talent and aspirations, furnishes all the prominent biographical information, and finally offers critical interpretations of the individual works. Her novels studied here include The Grass is Singing, The Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook, The Summer before the Dark, and The Briefing for a Descent into Hell. Contents: Individual Conscience in The Grass is Singing Martha in Quest of Roots: A Study of Identity Crisis in The Children of Violence The Golden Notebook: From Alienation to Integration The Summer before the Dark: Reconstruction of the Self Briefing for a Descent into Hell: A Schizoid on a Celestial Mission Conclusion.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:610253695
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperPerennial
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Allegories
ISBN : 0006547214
'The Sirian Experiments' is the third volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series, 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. In this interlinked quintet of novels, she creates a new, extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth is influenced by the rivalries and interactions of three powerful galactic empires, Canopus, Sirius and their enemy, Puttiora. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction. 'The Sirian Experiments' chronicles the origins of our planet, as the three galactic empires fight for control of the human race. The novel charts the gradual moral awakening of its narrator, Ambien II, a 'dry, dutiful, efficient' female Sirian administrator. Witnessing the wanton colonization of land and people, Ambien begins to question her involvement in such insidious experimentati- on, her faith in the possibility of human progress itself growing weaker every day.
Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1286 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Science fiction, English
ISBN : UOM:39015032574942
Author : R. D. Laing
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990-04-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141941745
In ‘The Politics of Experience’ and the visionary ‘Bird of Paradise’, R.D. Laing shows how the straitjacket of conformity imposed on us all leads to intense feelings of alienation and a tragic waste of human potential. He throws into question the notion of normality, examines schizophrenia and psychotherapy, transcendence and ‘us and them’ thinking, and illustrates his ideas with a remarkable case history of a ten-day psychosis. ‘We are bemused and crazed creatures,’ Laing suggests. This outline of ‘a thoroughly self-conscious and self-critical human account of man’ represents a major attempt to understand our deepest dilemmas and sketch in solutions. ‘Everyone in contemporary psychiatry owes something to R.D. Laing’ Anthony Clare, the Guardian.