Alfred und Emily: Roman Doris Lessing. Aus dem Engl. von Barbara Christ

Christ, Barbara und Doris Lessing:

ISBN 10: 345540135X / ISBN 13: 9783455401356

Published by HOFFMANN UND CAMPE VERLAG GmbH, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alfred und Emily: Roman Doris Lessing. Aus dem Engl. von Barbara Christ
• Publisher: HOFFMANN UND CAMPE VERLAG GmbH
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 345540135X
• ISBN 13: 9783455401356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Condition: Wie neu
• Weight: 434 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Varia

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Synopsis

The first book after Doris' Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead. 'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness.' In this extraordinary book, the new Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, both of them irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg. Her mother Emily's great love was a doctor, who drowned in the Channel, and she spent the war nursing the wounded in the Royal Free Hospital. In the first half of this book, Doris Lessing imagines the lives her parents might have made for themselves had there been no war at all, a story that has them meeting at a village cricket match outside Colchester as children but leading separate lives.This is followed by a piercing examination of their lives as they actually came to be in the shadow of that war, their move to Rhodesia, a damaged couple squatting over Doris's childhood in a strange land.'Here I still am,' says Doris Lessing, 'trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to get free.' With the publication of Alfred and Emily she has done just that.