UNDER MY SKIN: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
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Product details:
- Edition number Revised
- Publisher Fourth Estate
- Date of Publication 9 October 1995
- ISBN 9780006548256
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages432.0 pages
- Size 198x129 mm
- Weight 395 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 photo plates. 0
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Short description:
Doris Lessing's autobiography begins with her childhood in Africa and ends on her arrival in London in 1949 with the typescript of her first novel in her suitcase.
It charts the evolution first of her consciousness, then of her sexuality and finally of her political awareness with an almost overwhelming immediacy, and is as distinctive and challenging as anything she has ever written.
It is already recognised as one of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century.
Long description:
Doris Lessing schreibt hier über die ersten dreißig Jahre ihres Lebens, über die Kindheit im Iran, auf der elterlichen Farm im ehemaligen Südrhodesien und über die Zeit, die sie als junge Frau in Salisbury, der Hauptstadt der britischen Kronkolonie, verbrachte. "Wir sehen unser Leben in jeder Phase unterschiedlich...", sagt Doris Lessing, "wenn ich dieses Buch mit Dreißig geschrieben hätte, wäre es ein ziemlich aggressives Dokument geworden. Mit Vierzig ein Aufschrei der Verzweiflung, voller Schuldgefühle. Jetzt blicke ich mit wachsender Distanz und Neugier zurück auf das Kind, das Mädchen, die junge Frau..."
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