Grandmothers: Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing received the Nobel Prize in literature with the wording: “telling about the experience of women, with skepticism, passion and visionary power of the subjected civilization.” It is about the experience of women and about civilization, which exhibits barriers to the natural beginning, will be discussed in the book “Grandmother”. These are four stories, each of which is not like the previous one .. The short story, which gave the name of the whole book, is perhaps the most bright, sincere, unusual. What to do to a woman who loves her friend’s son? Nature suggests that it must be given to the feeling that it will never be as happy as in the arms of this young man. But prudence makes her abandon love. Someone will see in this story an archetypal principle, the myth of Edip, others – the struggle of nature and society, the third – the tragedy of middle -aged women trying to grab their share of happiness. But be that as it may, the “grandmothers”, like the other three works that make up the collection, will not leave anyone indifferent. The novel was an ECR …

Author
Lessing Doris
Translator
Fedorova Yu., Pitcher Alexander
Publisher
Eksmo, 2014
Series
Intellectual bestseller. Reads the whole world

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