Deze auteur wordt geprezen om haar scherpe intellect en haar onverschrokken onderzoek van sociale en politieke kwesties. Haar werken duiken in de complexiteit van de menselijke psyche, de zoektocht naar identiteit en de strijd tegen maatschappelijke beperkingen. Door haar krachtige proza en filosofische onderzoek werd deze autodidactische intellectueel een stem voor degenen die worstelen met onderdrukking en onrecht.
Als er één schrijver is die in staat is de waarheid over de condition humaine op papier te zetten, dan is het wel Doris Lessing, winnares van de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur 2007. Dat bewijst zij opnieuw met deze briljante novelle. InDe grootmoeders beschrijft Lessing het verhaal van een hechte vriendschap tussen twee vrouwen. Zij worden verliefd op elkaars tienerzonen en hun beider hartstocht zal jaren duren (bron bol.com)
De heerlijkste verhalen van Doris Lessing, Ischa Meijer, Peter Mayle en vele anderen
Prachtige verhalen over Frankrijk van uiteenlopende auteurs als Simon Carmiggelt, Doris Lessing, Ischa Meijer, James Thurber, Inez van Dullemen, Peter Mayle en vele anderen.
This is Doris Lessing's continuation of her autobiography, "Under My Skin," focusing on the peak of her career following the success of her first novel in 1950. It explores her distinctive role in British literary and political life.
After moving to London, Martha Quest finds herself being drawn toward a Bohemian way of life
In this portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland, the author recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being banned from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her political views and opposition to the minority white Government. The visits constitute a journey to the heart of a country whose history, landscape, people and spirit are evoked by the author in a narrative of detail. She embraces every facet of life in Zimbabwe from the lost animals in the bush to political corruption, from AIDS to a successful communal enterprise created by rural blacks, and notes the kind of changes that can only be appreciated by one who has lived there before.
The first volume of Doris Lessing's `Collected African Stories', and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a collection of some of her finest short stories.
This major collection contains all of Doris Lessing’s short fiction, other than the stories set in Africa, from the beginning of her career until now. Set in London, Paris, the south of France, the English countryside, these thirty-five stories reflect the themes that have always characterized Lessing’s work: the bedrock realities of marriage and other relationships between men and women; the crisis of the individual whose very psyche is threatened by a society unattuned to its own most dangerous qualities; the fate of women.The stories in this book were taken from the following previously published anthologies:Five (1953)The Habit of Loving (1957)A Man and Two Women (1963)The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories (1972)
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. 'The Four-Gated City' finds Martha Quest in 1950s London and very much part of the social history of the time: the Cold War, the anti-nuclear Aldermaston Marches, Swinging London, the deepening of poverty and social anarchy. Daring to go a step further - as Lessing so often has in her career - the novel ends with the century in the throes of World War Three. In the four previous novels of the 'Children of Violence' series, Lessing explored the end of an epoch. Here she trains her gaze on the present - and the future. The disquieting power of her vision revealed across this series finds its culmination in this brave and visionary work.
