Doris May Lessing Livres

Dans un registre proche de l'Eté avant la nuit, le nouveau Doris Lessing est un roman fort et bouleversant, où la brillante rédactrice en chef d'un magazine féminin rencontre une vieille femme malade et misérable, lui vient en aide et se lie profondément avec elle. Outre une peinture très vivante et colorée du Londres d'aujourd'hui, la description des rapports qui se nouent entre les deux femmes, de cette tentative d'apprivoisement de l'une par l'autre et des combats désespérés de la vieille dame pour sauver sa dignité et son autonomie, est véritablement admirable. Grave, tendre, écrit avec un remarquable mélange de force et de sensibilité, Journal d'une voisine est un roman qui continuera de vous hanter longtemps après que vous en aurez terminé la lecture. Comme tous les romans de l'auteur du Carnet d'Or, la grande Doris Lessing. Fin septembre 1984, Doris Lessing accordait une interview au "Sunday Times;" par laquelle elle désamorçait le piège qu'elle avait tendu aux éditeurs et critiques anglo-saxons en écrivant deux romans sous le pseudonyme de Jane Somers. Journal d'une voisine est le premier de ces deux romans.

La narratrice nous conte avec force détails la relation qu'elle a entretenu tout au long de sa vie avec ses chats, d'abord ceux de son enfance, en partie sauvages et ceux de sa vie d'adulte dans son appartement Londonien, domestiques : la chatte grise et la chatte noire.

Victoria a neuf ans lorsqu'elle pénètre pour la première fois dans l'univers luxueux des Staveney, une riche famille blanche de Londres. Pour cette petite fille noire issue d'un milieu modeste, c'est un choc. Aussi lorsque, des années plus tard, elle leur présente Mary - la fille née de sa liaison avec leur fils Thomas - et qu'ils l'accueillent à bras ouverts, Victoria les laisse s'immiscer dans l'éducation de l'enfant, loin d'imaginer les conséquences qu'aura une telle décision. "C'est féroce, cinglant, affligeant, et d'autant plus juste que l'auteur ne sacrifie jamais à la caricature" - L'Express.

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in the blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna tries to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.

Femmes hors du commun, Julia, la doyenne de la famille, et Frances se battent pour leurs enfants. A travers l'histoire de la famille Lennox, Doris Lessing évoque la jeunesse des années 1960, celle qui, au sortir de deux guerres mondiales, voulut briser les vieilles chaînes et revendiquer sa liberté. Étaient-ils des idéalistes romantiques ou une génération meurtrie ? Un témoignage exceptionnel d'un des plus grands écrivains vivants de notre temps.

Dans les années soixante à Londres, une femme "face à la brute qu'elle a enfantée". Ce roman, parfois à la limite du fantastique, se lit comme "la démonstration d'un théorème" (J. R. Boivin). [SDM].

Sur la terrasse d'un café dominant la baie de Baxter's Teeth, deux familles, qui semblent n'en former qu'une, se prélassent au soleil. Roz et Lil, les grand-mères, restées belles, entourées de Tom et Ian, leurs fils, et de leurs petites-filles, semblent filer le parfait bonheur. Depuis toujours, Roz et Lil sont aussi inséparables que des sœurs jumelles, et l'affection qu'elles se portent s'est doublée peu à peu d'un amour pour le moins trouble de chacune pour le fils de l'autre. Mais, quand Mary, la femme de Tom, surgit, pleine de colère, l'ombre débarque dans ce tableau idyllique... Grâce à la légèreté de son écriture, Doris Lessing signe avec Les Grand-Mères un roman décapant sur les non-dits et la dissimulation.

Londres, été 1939. James Reid, jeune homme rêveur et qui ne vit que par les livres, embarque pour l’Inde avec son régiment. Un voyage infernal, entre solitude, ennui et maladies, commence. Pourtant, lors d’une escale au Cap, sa vie bascule : il croit trouver en Daphne, épouse de militaire qui l’héberge, la femme idéale, l’ange dont il rêvait, le grand amour dont la littérature lui a inspiré le désir quasi mystique. La réalité est tout autre… Dans ce court roman, Doris Lessing met toute sa puissance de conteuse au service de ses thèmes de prédilection : les désillusions de l’amour, le fossé entre fantasme et réalité, et la démission des hommes, plus à l’aise dans le monde des idées que dans la vraie vie.

Ben est un être hors du commun : ce jeune homme de dix-huit ans, qui en paraît quarante par sa musculature impressionnante et sa forte pilosité, erre dans Londres, inspirant la pitié chez les uns et la répulsion chez les autres. Est-il un " primitif ", un reliquat de l'homme de Néandertal ? Aussi naïf que massif, Ben a pourtant une remarquable faculté d'adaptation. Entraîné et manipulé, Ben va devenir la proie d'un " véritable " monstre, un puissant directeur de laboratoire qui veut le soumettre aux pires expériences...

In response to the many inquiries he has received about the Sufi tradition from people from all walks of life, leading Sufi expert Idries Shah presents a clarifying series of questions and answers that illustrates how traditional Sufi concepts can resolve our social, psychological, and spiritual problems.

Doris Lessing is unrivalled in her ability to capture the truth from the complexities of relationships and the stories in this wonderful collection have lost none of their original power. Two marriages, both middle class, liberal and 'rather literary', share a shocking flaw, a secret 'cancer'. A young, beautiful woman from a working class family is courted by a very eligible, very upmarket man. An ageing actress falls in love for the first time but can only express her feelings through her stage performances because her happily married lover is unobtainable. A dedicated, lifelong rationalist is tempted, after the death of his father, by the comforts of religious belief. In this magnificent collection of stories, which spans four decades, Doris Lessing's unique gift for observation, her wit, her compassion and remarkable ability to illuminate the complexities of human life are all remarkably displayed.

In Pursuit of the English is a first-class novelist's account of the lusty, quarrelsome, unscrupulous, funny, pathetic, full-blooded life in a working-class rooming house. It is a shrewd and unsentimental picture of Londoners you've probably never met or even read about - though they are the real English. In swift, barbed style, in high, hard, farcical writing that is eruptively funny, Doris Lessing records the joys and terrors of everyday life. The truth of her perception shines through the pages of a work that makes a permanent addition to writing about the English.

The first volume of Doris Lessing's `Collected African Stories', and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Susan Rawlings, eine Frau in den besten Jahren, die eigentlich alles hat, was nach landläufiger Meinung eine Frau sich nur wünschen kann: einen gutaussehenden, erfolgreichen Ehemann, vier wohlerzogene Kinder und ein schönes Haus mit Garten in Richmond, beginnt auf einmal, immer öfter die Tage in einem schäbigen Zimmer in einem Stundenhotel zu verbringen, wo es eines Tages zur Katastrophe kommt. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

This is Doris Lessing s Africa where 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.

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.

This much-acclaimed collection of stories vividly evokes both the grandeur of Africa, the glare of its sun and the wide open space, as well as the great, irresolvable tensions between whites and blacks. Tales of poor white farmers and their lonely wives, of storm air thick with locusts, of ants and pomegranate trees, black servants and the year of hunger in a native village - all combine to present a powerful image of a continent which seems incorruptible in spite of the people who plough, mine and plunder it to make their living. In Doris Lessing's own words, 'Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.'

The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best occasional writings from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security. A Proper Marriage is the second novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence series of novels, each a masterpiece on its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.

Documents Relating to The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire is an sf novel by Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing. It concludes her five-book Canopus in Argos series & comprises a set of documents that describe the final days of the Volyen Empire, located at the edge of our galaxy & under the influence of three other galactic empires, the benevolent Canopus, the tyrannical Sirius & the malicious Shammat of Puttiora. The Sentimental Agents is a social satire written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift & George Orwell focusing on the debasement of language in political rhetoric. In this fictional universe it's propaganda that keeps fragile empires afloat. When language becomes too distorted, some succumb to a condition called "undulant rhetoric" & are placed in a Hospital for Rhetorical Diseases. Because of its focus on characterization & social/cultural issues, & no emphasis on technological details, this book is soft sf, or "space fiction" as Lessing calls her Canopus in Argos series. While The Sentimental Agents can be read as a stand-alone book, she does continue with the history of the Sirian Empire, picking up from where she left off in The Sirian Experiments ('80), 3rd book in the series.

From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the second instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'.

The celebrated author explores new ways to view ourselves and the society we live in, and gives us fresh answers to such enduring questions as how to think for ourselves and understand what we know.

This book begins with Lessing's childhood in Africa, recalling her marriages and involvement in communist politics and ends on her arrival in London in 1949, with the typescript of her first novel - The Grass is Singing - in her suitcase.

The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 is the fourth volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series, 'Canopus in Archives'.

From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the fifth and final instalment in the visionary novel cycle `Canopus in Argos: Archives'.

Nineteen brilliant examples of Doris Lessing's GeniusIncludes:One off the Short ListThe Story of Two DogsThe Sun between their FeetA Woman on a RoofHow I Finally Lost my HeartA Man and Two WomenA RoomEngland versus EnglandTwo PottersBetween MenA Letter from HomeOur Friend JudithEach OtherHomage for Isaac BabelOutside the MinistryDialogueNotes for a Case HistoryThe New ManTo Room NineteenCover by Robert Foster.

The third book in the Children of Violence series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other books are Martha Quest , A Proper Marriage , Landlocked and The Four-Gated City .

At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

Set in a future Ice Age where the northern hemisphere is buried in snow, the story follows Mara and her younger brother, Dann, who are abducted from their Mahondi home. Raised in a challenging rural village, they face threats from nature and a hostile community. As drought drives them north in search of sustenance, they navigate cities filled with crime and corruption, exploring the complexities of human nature and society. This imaginative narrative offers a profound reflection on survival and the human condition.

The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid.

The seventeen stories in this, the finest collection of Doris Lessing's short fiction, all share the same assured mastery of insight and compassion. They may be set in Africa, England, Germany, or France; their themes may range from the sexual dilemma of a too-attractive woman to the perilous initiation into manhood of a young boy; their tone may be dryly ironic, cuttingly satiric, brilliantly realistic, or powerfully tragic. But whatever the mood or place, long after the stories have ended the people linger in one's mind: the aging rake of the title piece and his insensitive doll-like bride; the compulsive housekeeper, estranged from her untidy husband and yearning for him; the sheltered young wife experiencing the horror of a swarm of locust on her husband's farm; pitiful Mr. Brooke, filling his empty days with dreams of the delightful Marnie; the two British travelers gripped by a gnawing paranoia as they face the evil and egoism of postwar Germany. Each demonstrates again and again the very special qualities of heart and mind that have one Doris Lessing a unique place in modern fiction.

Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country's poultry stocks, Persikov's discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agents, the state and the Soviet media all seize upon the red ray, matters fet out of hand... Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin's rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, brilliant satire on the consequence of the abuse of power and knowledge.

An account of the Russian occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, the Afghan resistance and the plight of the refugees.

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.

This is Doris Lessing's account of a journey back to the land in which she grew up and in which so much of her concern is still invested. Her love of Africa is as strong as her hatred of the white supremacy rule that has haunted its past.

Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience. For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing -- and the first disturbing encounters with sex. The first of Doris Lessing's timeless Children of Violence novels, Martha Quest is an endearing masterpiece.

Showing Doris Lessing's writing with the angry compassion of first-hand knowledge to reveal an Africa unknown to most Europeans today, this is an evocation of Africa's sounds and smells, its stark power and savage grandeur and its agony and ultimate tragedy.

From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the Stricken) by the kindly, paternalistic Canopeans who colonised it many centuries ago, is under the influence of the evil empire of Puttiora. War, famine, disease and environmental disasters ravage the planet. To Johor, mankind is a 'totally crazed species', racing towards annihilation: his orders to save humanity set him what seems to be an impossible task. 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 diaries introduce us to Jane, an intelligent and beautiful magazine editor concerned with success, clothes and comfort. After her husband, then her mother, die from cancer she befriends ninety-something Maudie, whose poverty and squalor contrast with her own life

The Sirian Experiments is the 3rd volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated Canopus in Argos Archives sf series. In this interlinked quintet of novels, she creates a new, extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth is influenced by the rivalries & interactions of three powerful galactic empires, Canopus, Sirius & their enemy, Puttiora. Blending myth, fable & allegory, her astonishing visionary creation both reflects & redefines the history of own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction. The Sirian Experiments chronicles the origins of our planet, the three galactic empires fight for control of the human species. The novel charts the gradual moral awakening of its narrator, Ambien II, a 'dry, dutiful, efficient' female Sirian administrator. Witnessing the wanton colonisation of land & people, Ambien begins to question her involvement in such insidious experimentation, her faith in the possibility of human progress itself growing weaker every day.

A short story collection originally published by Michael Joseph Ltd as part of the collection "African Stories 1964".Contains: The Black Madonna; The Trinket Box; The Pig; Traitors; The Old Chief Mshlanga; A Sunrise on the Veld; No Witchcraft for Sale.

A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era In a London squat a band of bourgeois revolutionaries are united by a loathing of the waste and cruelty they see around them. These maladjusted malcontents try desperately to become involved in terrorist activities far beyond their level of competence. Only Alice seems capable of organising anything. Motherly, practical and determined, she is also easily exploited by the group and ideal fodder for a more dangerous and potent cause. Eventually their naive radical fantasies turn into a chaos of real destruction, but the aftermath is not as exciting as they had hoped. Nonetheless, while they may not have changed the world, their lives will never be the same again...

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. From the Paperback edition.

A collection of 13 short stories which offer a humorous study of humanity. The subject matter ranges from a tale of adultery to an analysis of self-doubt and a story on the banality of existence.

An unidentified man is admitted to a London hospital after he is found wandering on the Embankment. Later identified as a Cambridge lecturer, he remains oblivious to his past life. This novel develops the idea that mental illness can be a liberating experience for both the individual and society.

A fascinating novel of love and ecology from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

As the world falls apart outside, the narrator watches over Emily, a young child brought into her care by a stranger. Emily is also guarded by Hugo, half cat and half dog, the bizarre and lovable beast whose presence dominates the tale.

A fierce, compelling account of the nature and origins of love from Doris Lessing, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century and winner of the Nobel Pize for Literature 2007.

Doris Lessing's first book after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature revisits her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents led.

Exploring an alternative history of humankind's beginnings, this work by Doris Lessing delves into provocative themes that challenge conventional narratives. Renowned as one of the most significant writers of the past century, Lessing crafts a thought-provoking tale that invites readers to reconsider the foundations of human existence. The narrative is both brilliant and dark, reflecting her unique perspective on the complexities of humanity's origins.

Approaching a liberal arts tradition in the classroom, across the curriculum, and beyond, The McGraw-Hill Reader offers rich and diverse readings in education, the social sciences, business and economics, the humanities, and the sciences. This new eleventh edition offers a new focus on reading and composing across various media; it includes over 100 selections from prominent thinkers and writers; each essay was chosen to provoke critical thought and encourage effective writing.

Mit einer hellsichtigen Mischung aus Mythen, Fabeln und Allegorien entwirft Doris Lessing in ihrem „Canopus-Zyklus“ eine eindringliche Parabel auf die Geschichte der Menschheit. In diesem Band sind der 4. und 5. Roman der Saga geeint. Roman 4 führt auf den am Rande des canopischen Imperiums gelegenen Planeten 8, eine Welt der Harmonie und des Überflusses, gesegnet von tropischem Klima. Bis eines Tages die erste Schneeflocke fällt, Zeichen einer kommenden Eiszeit, und der Überlebenskampf beginnt. Der 5. Roman spielt im Reich der Volyen. Hier hat die herrschende Kaste die Bevölkerung versklavt, Revolution, Invasionen und Aufstände sind an der Tagesordnung - ein politisch hochexplosives Klima, dem sich auch der canopische Gesandte nicht entziehen kann.

Der Band bietet einen Überblick über das schriftstellerische Werk von Doris Lessing und ermöglicht ein erstes Kennenlernen dieser bedeutenden Autorin.

Der Band bietet einen Überblick über das schriftstellerische Schaffen Doris Lessings und ermöglicht ein erstes Kennenlernen dieser Autorin von Weltrang.

Das wohl persönlichste Erinnerungsbuch der großen englischen Erzählerin: die nachdenkliche Auseinandersetzung mit zwei eigenwilligen Frauen: ihrer Mutter und sich selbst. Die Tochter, die in der Tat klüger wurde als viele andere, erinnert sich an das Rhodesien der dreißiger Jahre, an das Leben ihrer Mutter und an sich selbst, 'das Idealbild einer schwierigen Heranwachsenden'. Sie beschreibt, ratlos noch heute, wie unerträglich ihre Mutter war und wie unerträglich sie, die Tochter.

Prachtige verhalen over Frankrijk van uiteenlopende auteurs als Simon Carmiggelt, Doris Lessing, Ischa Meijer, James Thurber, Inez van Dullemen, Peter Mayle en vele anderen.

Jak wielka jest miłość, która niszczy samych zakochanych? Liz i Ros są nierozłączne, mieszkają po sąsiedzku w pięknych domach nad brzegiem oceanu. Obie są samotnymi kobietami i obie mają nastoletnich, atrakcyjnych synów. Jeden niedozwolony pocałunek niszczy ten przyjacielski układ i popycha bohaterów do uwikłania się w skandaliczne romanse, które trwają długie lata i niszczą wszystkich dookoła. A najbardziej najbliższych.

Im ersten Band ihrer Autobiografie erzählt Doris Lessing aus dreißig Lebensjahren, von ihrer Kindheit im afrikanischen Busch bis zu ihrem Aufbruch nach England - von Erfahrungen, die später Hintergrund ihrer großen Romane und Erzählungen werden sollten."In diesem Buch pulsiert das Leben. Meisterhaft, wie die Intensität der sinnlichen Welt heraufbeschworen wird. Der Busch, die Freiheit der Entdeckerin, die Wunder ihrer Welt sind großartig beschrieben. Dies ist nicht nur die Geschichte der ersten dreißig Jahre eines einzelnen Lebens, es ist auch die Biografie einer Zeit." Observer

»Rufus besaß die Intelligenz des Überlebenskünstlers. Er war ein zerzauster Kater, unter dessen schmutzigem, struppigem Fell die Knochen hervortraten. Aber er hatte eine wunderschöne Farbe, wie Feuer, wie ein Fuchs.«

Janna, bella ed elegante, con alle spalle un solido successo professionale, conosce una piccola e vecchia signora, Maudie, e da questo incontro casuale nasce una stretta amicizia, un legame quasi simbiotico. La prima comincia a condividere le manie e le abitudini della seconda, i suoi malanni senili, e viene così a contatto con un mondo disordinato e dolente ma anche affascinante, che le permette di scoprire dimensioni esistenziali da lei ignorate fino a quel momento. Il diario di Jane Somers si configura, nel panorama contemporaneo della letteratura in lingua inglese, come uno dei più impietosi esperimenti di autoanalisi mai compiuti da uno scrittore.