Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience. For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing -- and the first disturbing encounters with sex. The first of Doris Lessing's timeless Children of Violence novels, Martha Quest is an endearing masterpiece.
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Esta serie épica narra el viaje de una joven que lidia con las expectativas sociales y el despertar personal durante la tumultuosa mitad del siglo XX. Ambientada en el contexto de la África colonial y más tarde en Londres, la protagonista navega por complejos paisajes personales y políticos. La narrativa profundiza en temas de identidad, independencia y la búsqueda de sentido en un mundo en rápida transformación. Ofrece una profunda exploración de la conciencia femenina, la rebelión intelectual y la búsqueda de la autoexpresión auténtica en medio de la agitación histórica.
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An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading violence of a failing marriage. Finally, she must make the heartbreaking choice of whether to sacrifice her child as she turns her back on marriage and security. A Proper Marriage is the second novel in Doris Lessing's classic Children of Violence series of novels, each a masterpiece on its own right, and, taken together, an incisive and all-encompassing vision of our world in the twentieth century.
The third book in the Children of Violence series, a quintet of novels tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa through to old age in a post-nuclear Britain. The other books are Martha Quest , A Proper Marriage , Landlocked and The Four-Gated City .
Landlocked
- 287 páginas
- 11 horas de lectura
The Second World War has ended, but the anticipated relief and change do not come. The war has shattered existing values, and nothing new is in sight. Only violence remains. However, Martha does not believe in violence. Her knowledge is a hope that cannot be substantiated, as her world crumbles around her. The only hope she holds is the idea of a journey to her second homeland, England, where she will carry something that will open the gates of truth for her: the writings of Thomas Stern, her former lover, who could not bear reality and became unhinged. This madness does not lead him to unknown territories but rather provides a clearer insight into his own existence, and what he claims will prove to be true: "I am now the norm."
The fifth and final book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's 'Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. 'The Four-Gated City' finds Martha Quest in 1950s London and very much part of the social history of the time: the Cold War, the anti-nuclear Aldermaston Marches, Swinging London, the deepening of poverty and social anarchy. Daring to go a step further - as Lessing so often has in her career - the novel ends with the century in the throes of World War Three. In the four previous novels of the 'Children of Violence' series, Lessing explored the end of an epoch. Here she trains her gaze on the present - and the future. The disquieting power of her vision revealed across this series finds its culmination in this brave and visionary work.