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>
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...
评分看完萊辛的處女作。 開頭幾章風格和力度不太穩定,但越往後面越震懾,到最後,簡直就是驚人的好,不拿諾貝爾獎沒道理啊!看萊辛自己寫的回憶錄說,這本書讓她一舉成名,也促使她離開南非。她自嘲初版的封面非常低俗,出版社特意弄了個好像野獸的黑人,吸引人眼球。看完后,我只...
评分看完萊辛的處女作。 開頭幾章風格和力度不太穩定,但越往後面越震懾,到最後,簡直就是驚人的好,不拿諾貝爾獎沒道理啊!看萊辛自己寫的回憶錄說,這本書讓她一舉成名,也促使她離開南非。她自嘲初版的封面非常低俗,出版社特意弄了個好像野獸的黑人,吸引人眼球。看完后,我只...
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...
这本的文笔一般。纳博科夫记得是说过,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 wife + color clashes的题材屡见不鲜吧,读的时候常常想起Denis的chocolat。
评分Mary疯了死了 看到最后我也快疯了!
评分What makes this novel interesting is the various roles of farming in third world countries during the early twentieth century.
评分Mary疯了死了 看到最后我也快疯了!
评分可恨之人必有可怜之处?主题之类的都很好,就是mary对待native的态度的描述这一段跳的太快,一下子变得凶神恶煞让人摸不着头脑。
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