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Lädt ... Collected African Stories: This Was the Old Chief's Country v. 1 (Flamingo Modern Fiction) (2003. Auflage)von Doris Lessing
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Should absence of boredom and restlessness be a blessing or a worry? I ask because in Doris Lessing’s story “Winter in July” she writes, “They used to say to her sometimes: ‘What do you do with yourself all day? Aren’t you bored?’ She could not explain how it was she could never become bored. All restlessness had died in her.” Most people I’ve told this to haven’t recognized it as a blessing. Neither do the other characters in “Winter in July.” That says something about how we view being at rest, or even at ease. The idea that boredom can’t ever be is one that suggests not ever being able to imagine something better. Lessing’s stories in This Was the Old Chief’s Country are like that—there will be something in the story that leaves a question, and this is one good reason to make Ms. Lessing’s acquaintance. The tales in her book take place where she grew up in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Her description of culture in the veldt gives the African settings of her stories an emotional coloring that makes its mark in different ways upon her characters. It might do the same for you. Este libro incluye todas las historias escritas por Doris Lessing sobre África, el África de Doris Lessing, donde vivió durante veinticinco años, y donde gran parte de su interés y preocupación reside todavía. En estos relatos aparecen las complejidades, las angustias, las alegrías y las diferentes texturas de la vida y de la sociedad africana. Los relatos sobre África aparecen a lo largo de toda su carrera literaria, y contienen algunos de sus mejores trabajos. Además, es un brillante retrato de un mundo a la sombra de la mayoría de nosotros, percibido por una artista de primer orden, escrito con pasión y honestidad, acerca de su tierra natal. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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The first volume of Doris Lessing's 'Collected African Stories', and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 'It can be said of all white-dominated Africa that it was - and still is - the Old Chief's Country. So all the stories I write of a certain kind I think of as belonging under that heading; tales about white people, sometimes about black people, living in a landscape that not so very long ago was settled by black tribes, living in complex societies that the white people are only just beginning to study, let alone understand.' Doris Lessing, from the Preface In this superb volume of African stories, Lessing paints a magnificent portrait of the country in which she grew up. The cruelties of the white man towards the native, 'the amorphous black mass, like tadpoles, faceless, who existed merely to serve', the English settlers, ill at ease, the gamblers and moneymakers searching for diamonds and gold, and the presence, 'latent always in the blood', of Africa itself, its majestic beauty and timeless landscape: Lessing draws them all together into a powerful, memorable vision. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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> Doris Lessing, heureusement, maîtrise les mots et sait communiquer à la fois son amour du pays et son engagement pour l'indépendance des peuples. A travers ses écrits, j'ai cru bon de trouver dans chacun le thème porteur.
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