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And it is an evocation of the country in which they lived – Rhodesia.In The Grass Is Singing, the harsh, majestic beauty and the remorseless social values of white Southern Africa come violently, brilliantly to life.'Original and striking… full of those terrifying touches of truth, seldom mentioned but instantly recognized' – NEW STATESMAN'A first novel of astonishing accomplishment' – DAILYTELEGRAPH На нашем сайте вы можете скачать книгу "The Grass is Singing" Lessing Doris May Little Dorrit бесплатно и без регистрации в формате fb2, rtf, epub, pdf, txt, читать книгу онлайн или купить книгу в интернет-магазине. It is a portrait of the woman's marriage to a luckless farmer, a union doomed to failure before they had even met.
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At times, too, it is angry at the festering question of black against white which broods over the land like thunder. At times as violent and harsh as the brown earth and arching blue sky of the veldt, The Grass Is Singing is mercilessly penetrating and casts a spell all its won. Both are trapped by poverty, and in the heat of the brick and tin house, hemmed in by the bush, Mary finds herself seeking solace in the arms of the houseboy.***The Grass Is Singing is Doris Lessing's classic first novel.It is the story of the murder of a poor white woman by her black houseboy. Doris Lessing's novel is a remarkable piece of work. In one of the most cited passages - which is incidentally Lessing’s epigraph as well - the poet. Eliot’s The Wasteland, which blends antique myths and representations of contemporary society, finally resulting in a sombre and pessimistic vision. Doris Lessing famously takes her title from T. I read Lessing's novel within the genre of the Zimbabwean literature of Chimurenga, or resistance, in which violence is interpreted through ritual and the personification of natural forces.Set in Rhodesia, this is the story of Dick, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, dependent and disappointed. Significance of the title, The Grass is Singing. Published by New American Library, New York, 1976. I suggest that aspects of The Grass is Singing which literary critics found objectionable, such as its mythopoeic natural symbolism, and the unrealistic, thus implicitly racist depiction of Moses, can be read differently in the context of Kanengoni's novels and related works by his contemporaries. The Grass Is Singing blends Lessings imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a womans struggle against a ruthless fate. Specifically, I situate Lessing's novel in dialogue with two novels by Zimbabwean author Alexander Kanengoni: When the Rainbird Cries (1987) and Echoing Silences (1997).
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I argue here that The Grass is Singing (1950) should be read anew in the twenty-first century as a prescient anti-colonial text which prefigures contemporary postcolonial themes and issues. Doris Lessing's first novel was greeted by the international press as important news from a region that seemed poised for change in 1950, but in subsequent decades, it was read, especially by Southern African critics, as an increasingly irrelevant echo of colonial discourse. Nobel Prize-winning Doris Lessing was at once an author, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and staunch political commentator. Set in Rhodesia, The Grass is Singing tells the story of Dick Turner, a failed white farmer and his wife, Mary, a town girl who hates the bush and viciously.