Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses--master and slave--are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa.</P>
The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.</P>
文笔一般。纳博科夫记得是在他的文学讲座里说过,一流作家let the course of action reveals itself,而不是显山露水地写悲愁(paraphrase, 非原句)。Domestic female + color clashes的题材屡见不鲜,读的时候常常想起Claire Denis的Chocolat。Denis本人也是在非洲长大,此...
评分BOOK REPORT Title: The Grass is Singing Author: Doris Lessing Genre: Fiction Copyright: 1950 11 Chapters Main Characters: The Turners ( Dick& Mary) The Charlies (Charlies Slatter and his wife) House boys ( first Samson; last Moses ) The English young ma...
评分文笔一般。纳博科夫记得是在他的文学讲座里说过,一流作家let the course of action reveals itself,而不是显山露水地写悲愁(paraphrase, 非原句)。Domestic female + color clashes的题材屡见不鲜,读的时候常常想起Claire Denis的Chocolat。Denis本人也是在非洲长大,此...
评分(unpolished random thoughts, 自己备忘用) 这本书里的很多东西后来都在GN里重复出现了,从Lessing行文的细节,一些句子的构造,段落内和段落间的tension到recurring motifs (race/gender/etc., mental illness/dreams as a freudian device, etc.). 作为一部反映“社会现实...
评分Not a book for the fainted hearted, presumably you can related to the psychological movement of Mary. Lessing said in interview (Apostrophe - Pivot) that books used to be her escape/sanctuary from the real world. Growing up in (somewhat) isolated communiti...
Everything is so beautiful, excepting the ugly human nature~
评分毕业论文的个案小说,很不错
评分毕业论文的个案小说,很不错
评分14-20.10.17 这本书之于Lessing是否也像FoW之于Anna呢?可能对我来说读Lessing的其他书都是为了能更好地理解GN// L的第一本书告诉我们,sophistication是可以练出来的,而与生俱来的天赋是遮挡不住的。
评分毕业论文的个案小说,很不错
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