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The Diaries of Jane Somers
These two novels show Lessing returning to an earlier narrative style with fresh power.
Doris Lessing
Through close readings of Doris Lessing's novels from The Grass is Singing to The Fifth Child, Margaret Moan Rowe maps many of the literary and cultural negotiations that make Doris Lessing both a maverick and a mainstream novelist. Examining the pull of paternal and maternal biographical and literary identification in Lessing, Rowe relates them to the tensions between the ordinary and the visionary in her fiction.
Il diario di Jane Somers
Ci vuole una personalità come quella di Jane Somers per arrivare a prendersi cura dell'anziana Maudie Fowler, sola, indigente e testarda. Bella, elegante, professionale e capace sempre di tener fede agli impegni - "E così sarà. Perché l'ho detto"--Jane vince i sensi di colpa dopo la morte della propria madre entrando nella vita di Maudie. Un romanzo che ci mette davanti le paure legate a invecchiamento, solitudine, incapacità di gestirsi dignitosamente con, al tempo stesso, il bisogno incomprimibile di autonomia. Per arrivare a concludere "che basta così poco a cambiare una vita."
Doris Lessing
This new edition of Elizabeth Maslen's successful study covers the full range of Doris Lessing's work and explores in detail both its form and content. From The Grass is Singing (1950) through to Alfred and Emily (2008) her main concerns are shown to have a remarkable continuity, both in her commitment to political and cultural issues and in her explorations of inner space. Her experiments with form are closely analysed, and her bold exposure of jargon, cliché, and the manipulative power of language is demonstrated. While she can be seen as part of the great diasporaic influx that followed World War Two her experimentations with form blend in with the explorations of realism taking place in much British fiction from the early years of the twentieth century. This is a concise, accessible, but scholarly book, offering both perceptive critical insights and a valuable up-to-date bibliography.
Understanding Doris Lessing
Over her 40 year career, Doris Lessing has dealt with a variety of themes of extraliterary importance, such as race issues, colonialism, the relations between men and women, the consequences of the nuclear arms race, the evolution of humanity, and of old age. Understanding Doris Lessing introduces readers to a body of work that through a variety of techniques attempts to enlarge our understanding of the literary enterprise of history, and of humanity's relationship to the universe. Included in the discussion are Lessing's earlier works, The Grass is Singing, Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook and her more recent books, The Good Terrorist and The Fifth Child.
Doris Lessing
An original and compelling appraisal of this important international literary figure
