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Die Kluft (2007)

von Doris Lessing

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In the last years of his life, a contemplative Roman senator embarks on one last epic endeavor: to retell the history of human creation and reveal the little-known story of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic coastal wilderness. The Clefts have neither need nor knowledge of men; childbirth is controlled through the cycles of the moon, and they bear only female children. But with the unheralded birth of a strange new child--a boy--the harmony of their community is suddenly thrown into jeopardy. In this fascinating and beguiling novel, Lessing confronts the themes that inspired much of her early writing: how men and women manage to live side by side in the world and how the troublesome particulars of gender affect every aspect of our existence.… (mehr)
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La grieta
Doris Lessing
Publicado: 2007 | 148 páginas
Novela Otros

Imaginen una costa escarpada, donde las olas del mar lamen unas rocas antiguas; ahí, tendidas entre el agua y la piedra, yacen unas hembras que nunca han conocido varón. Tienen su propio lenguaje y sus ritos ancestrales, pero viven en un mundo sin tiempo, sin dueño, y es la luna quien las fecunda. Dejemos ahora que una de ellas se aleje de la costa y se adentre en un valle hasta descubrir a unos seres extraños, parecidos a las hembras pero con el pecho liso y un pedazo de carne en forma de blando punzón bailando entre las piernas…

Así es como un patricio romano intenta describir los primeros días de vida en la tierra, una época de la que le han llegado unos pocos testimonios deslavazados. El hombre se pregunta cómo aprendieron a convivir nuestros ancestros e imagina sus primeros encuentros, las peleas, los reproches, el deseo de tocar y penetrar cuerpos nuevos, hasta llegar a ese primer gesto de ternura que nos definió para siempre como seres humanos.

Con delicadeza e ironía, Doris Lessing cuenta cuál fue el origen de esa gran aventura que ahora nos tiene a todos, hombres y mujeres, atados a la vida. Ahí donde la ciencia no llega, el talento de una maestra abre caminos.

«Nadie sabe describir las relaciones humanas con tan asombrosa belleza.»

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  libreriarofer | Nov 15, 2023 |
Lessing is a class-A writer which is the only reason this isn't an even lower score. The main issue is simply that this is a history not a story and historie real or feigned are just never that exciting.

This one is told from the point of view of an ancient roman scholar putting together a forbidden history from various fragments. The main conceit being that this version of mythology/history claims that women where the first sex and males where some later after thought.

This conceit doesn't really mean much once you get past the 50% mark. Also now that i think about it the roman frame story also doesn't go anywhere.

So all you have is a fairly dull faux history of civilization only alleviated by the strenght of the writing and some interesting questions raised about the battle of the sexes. But not enough.

Interestingly it felt a bit misogynistic to me. Because of the way the tale unfolds the females just never do anything before the males came along leaving a weird implication that female life is nothing without men. Not the intent i would assume.
There's also things like the fact the men are bad at keeping their huts clean, which is supposed to be an insult to the male i assume but accidently ends up implying that females are genetically engineered to be cleaners, which strikes the ear as bit 50's :lol .

Anyway, even though this one is short it certainly runs out of steam by halfway.

Edit: I should mention there's some really dark stuff near the start of the novel this isn't repeated at all later though. Also there's a Giant Eagle obscession which sort of makes sense since hte hstorian is roman but its still gets really stupid. Especially at some point when a bit is called The Coming of the Eagles... :lol way too close to The Eagles are Coming from Lord of the Rings :D . ( )
  wreade1872 | Nov 28, 2021 |
Piccolo saggio antropologico con venature “fantastiche”.

Osservando le foto di quella dolce vecchina che sembra essere stata Doris Lessing, che tanto mi ricorda la mia cara nonna ormai venuta a mancare e i suoi meravigliosi ravioli, ho provato un po’ di sconcerto leggendo alcune descrizioni riguardanti le curiosità scientifiche delle Cleft sugli “strani” attributi genitali dei Monsters.
È presumibilmente corretto pensare che questo tipo di esperimenti siano stati effettuati realmente, ma leggerli fa accapponare la pelle.

Interessante l’artificio letterario che fa di un senatore Romano, ai tempi di Nerone, il narratore delle storia. ( )
  Atticus06 | Jun 9, 2020 |
Insuportable, no l'he pogut acabar. No sé qui el deu haver triar per a les MOLU s.XX. ( )
  jclapese | Jun 3, 2020 |
Un senatore dell'antica Roma, giunto al termine della vita, decide di intraprendere la sua ultima impresa: il racconto della storia dell'umanità. La sua narrazione si incentra sul popolo delle Cleft, una comunità ormai scomparsa di donne che vivevano in una sorta di paradiso terrestre, procreando senza essere fecondate dagli uomini e mettendo al mondo solo bambine, destinate a perpetuare la loro specie. Ma la nascita inattesa di una creatura strana e sconosciuta, un maschietto, infrange per sempre l'armonia della piccola comunità, mettendone a repentaglio l'esistenza stessa. L'ultimo, romanzo di Doris Lessing, scritto e pubblicato nel 2007 in Inghilterra, affronta i temi tipici della produzione letteraria dell'autrice: il rapporto tra uomo e donna, la necessità che due esseri così simili ma al tempo stesso tanto differenti imparino a vivere fianco a fianco nel mondo, e la constatazione di come i caratteri peculiari dei due sessi producano effetti su ogni aspetto della vita degli individui.
  kikka62 | Jan 25, 2020 |
It is incomplete; it is deeply arbitrary; and I see in it little but a reworking of a tiresome science-fiction cliché - a hive of mindless females is awakened and elevated (to the low degree of which the female is capable) by the wondrous shock of masculinity.
hinzugefügt von lquilter | bearbeitenThe Guardian, Ursula K. Le Guin (Feb 10, 2007)
 

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In the last years of his life, a contemplative Roman senator embarks on one last epic endeavor: to retell the history of human creation and reveal the little-known story of the Clefts, an ancient community of women living in an Edenic coastal wilderness. The Clefts have neither need nor knowledge of men; childbirth is controlled through the cycles of the moon, and they bear only female children. But with the unheralded birth of a strange new child--a boy--the harmony of their community is suddenly thrown into jeopardy. In this fascinating and beguiling novel, Lessing confronts the themes that inspired much of her early writing: how men and women manage to live side by side in the world and how the troublesome particulars of gender affect every aspect of our existence.

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