Tiny Individuals In The Fiction Of Doris Lessing

Author : Darshana Goswami
Publisher : Epitome Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Individuation (Psychology) in literature
ISBN : 9789380297200

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Tiny Individuals in the fiction of Doris Lessing by Darshana Goswami Pdf

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 : HarperPerennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Books
ISBN : 0006547591

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A Small Personal Voice by Doris Lessing Pdf

An essential and definitive collection of the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's finest essays, reviews, reminiscences and interviews from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. 'The novelist talks as an individual to individuals, in a small personal voice. In an age of committee art, public art, people may begin to feel again a need for the small personal voice; and this will feed confidence into writers and, with confidence because of the knowledge of being needed, the warmth and humanity, and love of people which is essential for a great age of literature.' In this collection of her non-fiction, Lessing's own life and work are the subject of a number of pieces, as are fellow writers such as Isak Dinesen and Kurt Vonnegut. There are essays on Malcolm X and Sufism, discussions of the responsibility of the artist, thoughts on her exile from Southern Rhodesia, and a fascinating memoir of her fraught relationship with her mother. Lit throughout by Doris Lessing's desire for truth-telling, 'A Small Personal Voice' is both an important collection of writings by and a self-portrait of one of the most significant writers of the past century.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007369133

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The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing Pdf

The landmark novel of the Sixties – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770890220

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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside by Doris Lessing Pdf

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 : Harper Collins
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061862496

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Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing Pdf

I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness. In this extraordinary book, the 2007 Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother, Emily, spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital after her great love, a doctor, drowned in the Channel. In the fictional first half of Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing imagines the happier lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war; a story that begins with their meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester. This is followed by a piercing examination of their relationship as it actually was in the shadow of the Great War, of the family's move to Africa, and of the impact of her parents' marriage on a young woman growing up in a strange land. "Here I still am," says Doris Lessing, "trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free." Triumphantly, with the publication of Alfred and Emily, she has done just that.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Young adult fiction
ISBN : 0007154399

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The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing Pdf

Classic horror of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child. 'Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet and David would reach for each other's hand, and smile, and breathe happiness.' Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives and friends, Harriet and David Lovatt's life is a hymn to domestic bliss and old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly and implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large and ugly, violent and uncontrollable, the infant Ben, 'full of cold dislike, ' tears at Harriet's breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness and a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world..

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015014394186

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A Small Personal Voice by Doris Lessing Pdf

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007455577

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The Four-Gated City by Doris Lessing Pdf

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 : Vintage
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307777676

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The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing Pdf

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 : Mona Knapp
Publisher : New York : Frederick Ungar Publishing Company
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003941502

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Doris Lessing by Mona Knapp Pdf

Author : Jenny Diski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781632866882

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In Gratitude by Jenny Diski Pdf

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "Transcendently disobedient, the most existence-affirming and iconoclastic defense a writer could mount against her own extinction." --Heidi Julavits, New York Times Book Review From "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine) comes a breathtaking memoir about terminal cancer and the author's relationship with Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing. In July 2014, Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given "two or three years" to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, as if she were acting out her part. To find the response that felt wholly her own, she had to face the clichés and try to write about it. And there was another story to write, one she had not yet told: that of being taken in at age fifteen by the author Doris Lessing, and the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship. In the pages of the London Review of Books, to which Diski contributed for the last quarter century, she unraveled her history with Lessing: the fairy-tale rescue as a teenager, the difficulties of being absorbed into an unfamiliar family, the modeling of a literary life. Swooping from one memory to the next--alighting on the hysterical battlefield of her parental home, her expulsion from school, the drug-taking twenty-something in and out of psychiatric hospitals--and telling all through the lens of living with terminal cancer, through what she knows will be her final months, Diski paints a portrait of two extraordinary writers--Lessing and herself. From a wholly original thinker comes a book like no other: a cerebral, witty, dazzlingly candid masterpiece about an uneasy relationship; about memory and writing, ingratitude and anger; about living with illness and facing death.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0435901311

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The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing Pdf

This murder story features a Rhodesian farmer's wife and her houseboy.

Author : Lara Feigel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781635570960

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Free Woman by Lara Feigel Pdf

A genre-defying memoir in which Lara Feigel experiments with sexual, intellectual and political freedom while reading and pursuing Doris Lessing How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Re-reading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, shortly after Doris Lessing's death, Lara Feigel discovered that Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, a writer, and a mother in a way that no other novelist had done. At a time when she was dissatisfied with the conventions of her own life, Feigel was enticed by Lessing's vision of freedom. Free Woman is essential reading for anyone whose life has been changed by books or has questioned the structures by which they live. Feigel tells Lessing's own story, veering between admiration and fury at the choices Lessing made. At the same time, she scrutinises motherhood, marriage and sexual relationships with an unusually acute gaze. And in the process she conducts a dazzling investigation into the joys and costs of sexual, psychological, intellectual and political freedom. This is a genre-defying book: at once a meditation on life and literature and a daring act of self-exposure.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061847660

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The Grandmothers by Doris Lessing Pdf

Shocking, intimate, often uncomfortably honest, these stories reaffirm Doris Lessing’s unequalled ability to capture the truth of the human condition In the title novel, two friends fall in love with each other's teenage sons, and these passions last for years, until the women end them, vowing a respectable old age. In Victoria and the Staveneys, a young woman gives birth to a child of mixed race and struggles with feelings of estrangement as her daughter gets drawn into a world of white privilege. The Reason for It traces the birth, faltering, and decline of an ancient culture, with enlightening modern resonances. A Love Child features a World War II soldier who believes he has fathered a love child during a fleeting wartime romance and cannot be convinced otherwise.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Cats
ISBN : 0451048423

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Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing Pdf

Here Doris Lessing recounts the cats that have moved and amused her, from her childhood home overrun with kittens, to the wrenching decline of El Magnifico, whose story unfolds in a new essay, appearing here for the first time.