Doris Lessing

La obra maestra de la Premio Nobel para seguir pensando el feminismo y la libertad. 2019: AÑO DORIS LESSING- Centenario del nacimiento de la autora- «Describía muchas emociones femeninas de agresión,

La obra maestra de la Premio Nobel para seguir pensando el feminismo y la libertad.2019: AÑO DORIS LESSING- Centenario del nacimiento de la autora-«Describía muchas emociones femeninas de agresión, d

Un clásico de Doris Lessing, Premio Nobel de Literatura, sobre la desgracia que sorprende a una familia con la llegada de su quinto hijo, Ben, un personaje salvaje y brutal.En la desinhibida sociedad inglesa de finales de la decada de 1960, Harriet y David Lovatt, una pareja de clase media-alta, tienen que enfrentarse a una situacion terrible. Su dia a dia se vuelve oscuro y desagradable, hasta tomar tintes casi apocalipticos.La reservada alegria de los Lovatt y su vision del mundo como un lugar benigno han sido sacudidas por el nacimiento de su quinto hijo, Ben, monstruoso en apariencia, anormalmente fuerte, egoista, hambriento, bestial.Reseña: Una historia de terror sobre la maternidad y el miedo a la ruina social, una fabula moral de la misma estirpe que Frankenstein y 1984.The New York Times Book Review

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience classics which will endure for generations to come.In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writers block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for political views, yellow for emotions, blue for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook the golden notebook that finally pulls these wayward strands of her life together.Widely regarded as Doris Lessings masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, The Golden Notebook is wry and perceptive, bold and indispensable.

La obra maestra de la Premio Nobel para seguir pensando el feminismo y la libertad. 2019: AÑO DORIS LESSING- Centenario del nacimiento de la autora- «Describía muchas emociones femeninas de agresión,

El pensamiento inédito de la ganadora del Premio Nobel. «En este mundo insensato y violento en el que vivimos, las palabras de Doris Lessing son un aliento y una guía.»Alberto Manguel, El País En los

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. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for political views, yellow for emotions, blue for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook - the golden notebook - that finally pulls these wayward strands of her life together. Widely regarded as Doris Lessing's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, 'The Golden Notebook' is wry and perceptive, bold and indispensable.

Un relato absorbente y feroz sobre los orígenes del amor de la mano de Doris Lessing. A sus sesenta y cinco años la dramaturga Sarah Durham se enamora de un bello y joven actor y luego de un director teatral, algo mas maduro, pero al que tambien dobla la edad. Al encontrarse en un estado de permanente deseo que creia propiedad exclusiva de las mujeres jovenes, Sarah se ve obligada a revisar su historia sentimental, desde la mas tierna infancia hasta sus obsesiones mas recientes. De nuevo, el amor es una brillante anatomia del corazon dibujada por una de las mayores maestras en psicologia humana que ha dado la literatura inglesa: Doris Lessing. Reseña:Su escritura es tensa, solida, intelectual: mas que una narradora apasionante es una pensadora apasionada, y es el brillo y el calor de su cerebro lo que mas fascina.Rosa Montero

Alice Mellings pertenece a un grupo marxista radical que se rebela contra el gobierno de Margaret Thatcher. La buena terrorista sigue los pasos de Alice Mellings, una mujer que transforma su casa en el cuartel general de un grupo de radicales de izquierdas que desearian colaborar con el IRA. Mientras Alice lucha por conciliar su ideologia con su educacion burguesa, sus compañeros encuentran retos inesperados en su activismo por el cambio social y contra el capitalismo. La vision ricamente matizada que aporta Doris Lessing al conflicto entre lo personal y lo politico hace de esta novela un retrato fascinante de la vida domestica y la rebeldia.Reseña:Doris Lessing participo, a traves de la palabra artistica, en el quehacer colectivo, en la historia.Mario Vargas Llosa

Tre racconti, pervasi dall'imprevisto, dal senso sconcertante delle umane possibilità, dalla sensazione da parte dei protagonisti di precipitare nella vita e di esserne, allo stesso tempo, ai margini. Due amiche, alla scomparsa dei mariti, iniziano una relazione ciascuna con il figlio adolescente dell'altra. Una ragazzina di colore, orfana e povera, ha una breve relazione con un ragazzo ricco, bianco, di famiglia liberale. All'insaputa del giovane, ha una figlia e quando la bambina ha sei anni, non potendo più mantenerla, si mette in contatto con la famiglia del ragazzo. Un soldato vive nel ricordo di una donna incontrata durante la seconda guerra mondiale, nella convinzione di aver concepito un figlio e di aver condotto un'esistenza sbagliata.

Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessings best collection of short stories, African Storiesa central book in the work of a truly beloved writeris now back in print. This beautiful collection is an homage to her twenty-five years spent in Africa and a brilliant portrait of African life.This is Doris Lessings Africawhere she lived for twenty-five years and where so much of her interest and concern still resides. Here in these stories, Lessing explores the complexities, the agonies and joys, and the textures of life in Africa.First published in 1965, and out of print since the 1990s, this collection contains much of Ms. Lessings most extraordinary work. It is a brilliant portrait of a world that is vital to all of usperceived by an artist of the first rank writing with passion and honesty about her native land.African Stories includes every story Doris Lessing has written about Africa: all of her first collection, This Was the Old Chiefs Country; the four tales about Africa from Five; the African stories from The Habit of Loving and A Man and Two Women; and four stories featured only in this edition.African Stories represents some of Doris Lessings best workand is an essential book by one of the twentieth centurys most important authors. - See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/African-Stories/Doris-Lessing/9781476767154#sthash.oVfKCvrL.dpuf

El pensamiento inédito de la ganadora del Premio Nobel. «En este mundo insensato y violento en el que vivimos, las palabras de Doris Lessing son un aliento y una guía.»Alberto Manguel, El País En los

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.