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卮蹖乇蹖賳鈥屫臂屬� 乇賵蹖丕賴丕
乇賲丕賳 卮蹖乇蹖賳鈥屫臂屬� 乇賵蹖丕賴丕 亘賴 丨賯蹖賯鬲 噩賴丕賳 賳夭丿蹖讴 賲蹖鈥屫促堌屸€� 蹖毓賳蹖 賲亘丕丿賱賴鈥屰� 毓卮賯貨 趩蹖夭蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丕蹖賳 丿賵乇丕賳 亘丨乇丕賳蹖 賲蹖鈥屫堌з� 亘丕 倬賳丕賴 亘乇丿賳 亘賴 丌賳 丌乇丕賲卮 蹖丕賮鬲貨
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First published January 1, 2001
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Doris Lessing
522听books3,055听followersBoth of her parents were British: her father, who had been crippled in World War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia; her mother had been a nurse. In 1925, lured by the promise of getting rich through maize farming, the family moved to the British colony in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Like other women writers from southern African who did not graduate from high school (such as Olive Schreiner and Nadine Gordimer), Lessing made herself into a self-educated intellectual.
In 1937 she moved to Salisbury, where she worked as a telephone operator for a year. At nineteen, she married Frank Wisdom, and later had two children. A few years later, feeling trapped in a persona that she feared would destroy her, she left her family, remaining in Salisbury. Soon she was drawn to the like-minded members of the Left Book Club, a group of Communists "who read everything, and who did not think it remarkable to read." Gottfried Lessing was a central member of the group; shortly after she joined, they married and had a son.
During the postwar years, Lessing became increasingly disillusioned with the Communist movement, which she left altogether in 1954. By 1949, Lessing had moved to London with her young son. That year, she also published her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, and began her career as a professional writer.
In June 1995 she received an Honorary Degree from Harvard University. Also in 1995, she visited South Africa to see her daughter and grandchildren, and to promote her autobiography. It was her first visit since being forcibly removed in 1956 for her political views. Ironically, she is welcomed now as a writer acclaimed for the very topics for which she was banished 40 years ago.
In 2001 she was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize in Literature, one of Spain's most important distinctions, for her brilliant literary works in defense of freedom and Third World causes. She also received the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
She was on the shortlist for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005. In 2007 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(Extracted from the pamphlet: A Reader's Guide to The Golden Notebook & Under My Skin, HarperPerennial, 1995. Full text available on ).
In 1937 she moved to Salisbury, where she worked as a telephone operator for a year. At nineteen, she married Frank Wisdom, and later had two children. A few years later, feeling trapped in a persona that she feared would destroy her, she left her family, remaining in Salisbury. Soon she was drawn to the like-minded members of the Left Book Club, a group of Communists "who read everything, and who did not think it remarkable to read." Gottfried Lessing was a central member of the group; shortly after she joined, they married and had a son.
During the postwar years, Lessing became increasingly disillusioned with the Communist movement, which she left altogether in 1954. By 1949, Lessing had moved to London with her young son. That year, she also published her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, and began her career as a professional writer.
In June 1995 she received an Honorary Degree from Harvard University. Also in 1995, she visited South Africa to see her daughter and grandchildren, and to promote her autobiography. It was her first visit since being forcibly removed in 1956 for her political views. Ironically, she is welcomed now as a writer acclaimed for the very topics for which she was banished 40 years ago.
In 2001 she was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize in Literature, one of Spain's most important distinctions, for her brilliant literary works in defense of freedom and Third World causes. She also received the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
She was on the shortlist for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005. In 2007 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(Extracted from the pamphlet: A Reader's Guide to The Golden Notebook & Under My Skin, HarperPerennial, 1995. Full text available on ).
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The Sweetest Dream, Doris Lessing
The Sweetest Dream is a 2001 novel by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing. The novel begins in the 1960s leading up to the 1980s and is set in London and the fictional African nation, Zimlia, a thinly veiled reference to Zimbabwe.
鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 倬丕賳夭丿賴賲 賲丕賴 噩賵賱丕蹖 爻丕賱 2014 賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
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The Sweetest Dream is a 2001 novel by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing. The novel begins in the 1960s leading up to the 1980s and is set in London and the fictional African nation, Zimlia, a thinly veiled reference to Zimbabwe.
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April 21, 2022
Doris Lessing is a Nobel Prize winner. Let scolding the choice of the Nobel Committee be the favorite amusement of the reading public, the Nobel is a sign of quality. Even perplexed and indignant, we do not doubt the competence of academics. In the case of Lessing, there can be no doubt - worthy. By the way, she received her award two years before her ninetieth birthday.
And she wrote "Great Dreams" at the age of 82. Once again, in words, eighty-two! If you were looking for a model of decent, active, timeless old age, he is in front of you. Before talking about the novel, it is worth saying a few words about the features of writing. Lessing does not break the text into parts, chapters and sub-chapters. It does not affect the level of reader comfort, these are not Saramagov bricks, without paragraphs, punctuations and dialogues, but the very concept of "content" does not seem to exist in her novels.
"Great Dreams", in fact, are two books that could well be autonomous. The English part is given a little more than half of the volume, it is a multi-figure mixture of a family saga with a novel of growing up, a social pamphlet, a historical and feminist novel. The images are carefully written out, the relationships between the characters are complex and ambiguous. African - as if in contrast, is scarce in all possible respects, and in a few words it could be described as a combination of "one warrior in the field" with "the burden of whites".
From all the variety of figures in the first part, a young woman doctor Sylvia, who grew up in a large disorderly house of the Lennox family, moves to the role of the main character in the second. A couple more characters appear in episodic roles. Surprisingly, the novel makes a surprisingly complete and holistic impression.
袨 谐褉械屑褟褖懈褏 胁械写褉邪褏 懈 芯斜 芯谐薪械, 屑械褉褑邪褞褖械屑 胁 褋芯褋褍写械
小 谢褞写褜屑懈, 泻芯褌芯褉褘械 褋褔懈褌邪谢懈, 褔褌芯 薪邪褉芯写 薪械芯斜褏芯写懈屑芯 蟹邪褖懈褖邪褌褜, 芯斜褉邪褖邪谢懈褋褜 泻邪泻 褋 胁褉邪谐邪屑懈, 懈褏 锌芯写胁械褉谐邪谢懈 薪邪锌邪写泻邪屑 (锌褉懈褔械屑 褋谢芯胁芯 芦褎邪褕懈褋褌禄 斜褘谢芯 械褖械 褋邪屑褘屑 屑褟谐泻懈屑 胁褘褉邪卸械薪懈械屑) 懈 褎懈蟹懈褔械褋泻芯屑褍 薪邪褋懈谢懈褞.
袛芯褉懈褋 袥械褋褋懈薪谐 薪芯斜械谢懈邪薪褌. 袩褍褋褌褜 褉褍谐邪褌褜 胁褘斜芯褉 袧芯斜械谢械胁褋泻芯谐芯 泻芯屑懈褌械褌邪 谢褞斜懈屑邪褟 蟹邪斜邪胁邪 褔懈褌邪褞褖械泄 锌褍斜谢懈泻懈, 袧芯斜械谢褜 蟹薪邪泻 泻邪褔械褋褌胁邪. 袛邪卸械 薪械写芯褍屑械胁邪褟 懈 胁芯蟹屑褍褖邪褟褋褜, 屑褘 薪械 褋芯屑薪械胁邪械屑褋褟 胁 泻芯屑锌械褌械薪褌薪芯褋褌懈 邪泻邪写械屑懈泻芯胁. 袙 褋谢褍褔邪械 袥械褋褋懈薪谐 懈 褋芯屑薪械薪懈泄 斜褘褌褜 薪械 屑芯卸械褌 - 写芯褋褌芯泄薪邪. 小胁芯褞 锌褉械屑懈褞 芯薪邪, 泻 褋谢芯胁褍, 锌芯谢褍褔懈谢邪 蟹邪 写胁邪 谐芯写邪 写芯 写械胁褟薪芯褋褌芯谢械褌懈褟.
袗 "袙械谢懈泻懈械 屑械褔褌褘" 薪邪锌懈褋邪谢邪 胁 82 谐芯写邪. 袝褖械 褉邪蟹, 锌褉芯锌懈褋褜褞, 胁芯褋械屑褜写械褋褟褌 写胁邪! 袝褋谢懈 胁褘 懈褋泻邪谢懈 芯斜褉邪蟹械褑 写芯褋褌芯泄薪芯泄, 写械褟褌械谢褜薪芯泄, 薪械锌芯写胁谢邪褋褌薪芯泄 胁褉械屑械薪懈 褋褌邪褉芯褋褌懈, 芯薪 锌械褉械写 胁邪屑懈. 袩褉械卸写械, 褔械屑 谐芯胁芯褉懈褌褜 芯 褉芯屑邪薪械, 褋褌芯懈褌 褋泻邪蟹邪褌褜 薪械褋泻芯谢褜泻芯 褋谢芯胁 芯斜 芯褋芯斜械薪薪芯褋褌褟褏 锌懈褋褜屑邪. 袥械褋褋懈薪谐 薪械 褉邪蟹斜懈胁邪械褌 褌械泻褋褌 薪邪 褔邪褋褌懈, 谐谢邪胁褘 懈 锌芯写谐谢邪胁褘. 袧邪 褍褉芯胁械薪褜 褔懈褌邪褌械谢褜褋泻芯谐芯 泻芯屑褎芯褉褌邪 薪械 胁谢懈褟械褌, 褝褌芯 薪械 褋邪褉邪屑邪谐芯胁褋泻懈械 泻懈褉锌懈褔懈, 斜械蟹 邪斜蟹邪褑械胁, 芯褌褌芯褔懈泄 懈 写懈邪谢芯谐芯胁, 薪芯 褋邪屑芯谐芯 锌芯薪褟褌懈褟 "褋芯写械褉卸邪薪懈褟" 褋谢芯胁薪芯 斜褘 薪械 褋褍褖械褋褌胁褍械褌 胁 械械 褉芯屑邪薪邪褏.
"袙械谢懈泻懈械 屑械褔褌褘", 锌芯 褋褍褌懈, 写胁械 泻薪懈谐懈, 泻芯褌芯褉褘械 胁锌芯谢薪械 屑芯谐谢懈 斜褘褌褜 邪胁褌芯薪芯屑薪褘屑懈. 袗薪谐谢懈泄褋泻芯泄 褔邪褋褌懈 芯褌写邪薪芯 褔褍褌褜 斜芯谢褜褕械 锌芯谢芯胁懈薪褘 芯斜褗械屑邪, 褝褌芯 屑薪芯谐芯褎懈谐褍褉薪邪褟 褋屑械褋褜 褋械屑械泄薪芯泄 褋邪谐懈 褋 褉芯屑邪薪芯屑 胁蟹褉芯褋谢械薪懈褟, 褋芯褑懈邪谢褜薪褘屑 锌邪屑褎谢械褌芯屑, 懈褋褌芯褉懈褔械褋泻懈屑 懈 褎械屑懈薪懈褋褌褋泻懈屑 褉芯屑邪薪芯屑. 袨斜褉邪蟹褘 褌褖邪褌械谢褜薪芯 胁褘锌懈褋邪薪褘, 芯褌薪芯褕械薪懈褟 屑械卸写褍 锌械褉褋芯薪邪卸邪屑懈 褋谢芯卸薪褘 懈 薪械芯写薪芯蟹薪邪褔薪褘. 袗褎褉懈泻邪薪褋泻邪褟 - 褋谢芯胁薪芯 胁 锌褉芯褌懈胁芯锌芯谢芯卸薪芯褋褌褜, 褋泻褍写薪邪 胁芯 胁褋械褏 胁芯蟹屑芯卸薪褘褏 芯褌薪芯褕械薪懈褟褏, 邪 薪械褋泻芯谢褜泻懈屑懈 褋谢芯胁邪屑懈 械械 屑芯卸薪芯 斜褘谢芯 斜褘 芯锌懈褋邪褌褜, 泻邪泻 褋芯械写懈薪械薪懈械 "芯写懈薪 胁 锌芯谢械 胁芯懈薪" 褋 "斜褉械屑械薪械屑 斜械谢褘褏".
袠蟹 胁褋械谐芯 屑薪芯谐芯芯斜褉邪蟹懈褟 褎懈谐褍褉 锌械褉胁芯泄 褔邪褋褌懈, 胁芯 胁褌芯褉褍褞 锌械褉械泻芯褔械胁褘胁邪械褌 薪邪 褉芯谢褜 谐谢邪胁薪芯泄 谐械褉芯懈薪懈 屑芯谢芯写邪褟 卸械薪褖懈薪邪-胁褉邪褔 小懈谢褜胁懈褟, 胁褘褉芯褋褕邪褟 胁 斜芯谢褜褕芯屑 斜械蟹邪谢邪斜械褉薪芯屑 写芯屑械 袥械薪薪芯泻褋芯胁. 袝褖械 锌邪褉邪 锌械褉褋芯薪邪卸械泄 锌芯褟胁谢褟械褌褋褟 薪邪 褝锌懈蟹芯写懈褔械褋泻懈褏 褉芯谢褟褏. 校写懈胁懈褌械谢褜薪芯, 薪芯 褉芯屑邪薪 锌褉芯懈蟹胁芯写懈褌 褍写懈胁懈褌械谢褜薪芯 褑械谢褜薪芯械 懈 褑械谢芯褋褌薪芯械 胁锌械褔邪褌谢械薪懈械.
袨斜械, 褋褌芯谢褜 褉邪蟹谢懈褔薪褘械 锌芯 褋褌懈谢褞 懈 卸邪薪褉褍, 写械泻芯褉邪褑懈褟屑 褔邪褋褌懈, 薪邪 写械谢械 锌褉芯褔薪芯 褋芯械写懈薪械薪褘 懈写械械泄 胁褘薪械褋械薪薪褘褏 胁 蟹邪谐谢邪胁懈械 胁械谢懈泻懈褏 屑械褔褌邪薪懈泄. 袨 褔械屑? 袨斜 褍屑械薪褜褕械薪懈懈 薪械褋锌褉邪胁械写谢懈胁芯褋褌懈 懈 谐芯褉褟, 锌褉芯懈褋褏芯写褟褖械谐芯 芯褌 褍谐薪械褌械薪懈褟 芯写薪懈褏 写褉褍谐懈屑懈, 芯斜 褍屑薪芯卸械薪懈懈 锌褉邪胁写褘, 写芯斜褉邪, 褋褔邪褋褌褜褟. 袗 薪械 褋谢懈褕泻芯屑 锌邪褎芯褋薪芯 懈 褍褌芯锌懈褔械褋泻懈? 袧懈褔褍褌褜, 斜芯谢褜褕械 褌芯谐芯, 械褋谢懈 褋屑芯褌褉械褌褜 薪邪 褋芯斜褘褌懈褟 褉芯屑邪薪邪 褋泻胁芯蟹褜 锌褉懈蟹屑褍 褝褌芯谐芯 锌芯薪懈屑邪薪懈褟, 锌芯胁械写械薪懈械 械谐芯 谐械褉芯械胁 褋芯胁械褉褕械薪薪芯 谢芯谐懈褔薪芯 懈 屑芯褌懈胁懈褉芯胁邪薪薪芯.
肖褉械薪褋懈褋, 褋懈屑锌邪褌懈褔薪邪褟 懈 褌邪谢邪薪褌谢懈胁邪褟 写械胁褍褕泻邪, 泻芯褌芯褉褍褞 褍谐芯褉邪蟹写懈谢芯 胁谢褟锌邪褌褜褋褟 胁 芯褌薪芯褕械薪懈褟 褋 褌褉械褋泻褍褔懈屑 斜械蟹写械谢褜薪懈泻芯屑 褌芯胁邪褉懈褖械屑 袛卸芯薪薪懈 懈 褉芯写懈褌褜 械屑褍 褋褘薪芯胁械泄-锌芯谐芯写泻芯胁, 锌芯褋谢械 褔械谐芯 屑褍卸械薪械泻 芯褋褌邪胁懈谢 懈褏 胁 薪懈褖械褌械 褉邪写懈 褋胁芯械泄 斜芯褉褜斜褘, 邪 械褖械 锌芯褌芯屑 - 褉邪写懈 写褉褍谐芯泄 卸械薪褖懈薪褘, 薪邪褋褌芯褟褖械谐芯 锌邪褉褌懈泄薪芯谐芯 褌芯胁邪褉懈褖邪. 袩芯褔械屑褍 锌芯褌褟薪褍谢邪褋褜 泻 褏邪褉懈蟹屑邪褌懈褔薪芯屑褍 屑械褉蟹邪胁褑褍? 袦芯卸薪芯 褋锌懈褋邪褌褜 薪邪 谐芯褉屑芯薪邪谢褜薪褘械 斜褍褉懈 懈 芯斜褖褍褞 斜械蟹屑芯蟹谐谢芯褋褌褜 褞薪芯褋褌懈, 薪芯 褋泻芯褉械械 芯褌 褌芯谐芯, 褔褌芯 写褍褕邪 谐芯褉褟褔芯 芯褌泻谢懈泻薪褍谢芯褋褜 薪邪 锌褉懈蟹褘胁 芯斜械蟹写芯谢械薪薪褘褏, 薪械 褉邪褋锌芯蟹薪邪胁 卸械褋褌褟薪泻懈 胁 褉褍锌芯褉械, 泻芯褌芯褉褘泄 械谐芯 褌褉邪薪褋谢懈褉芯胁邪谢.
袨褌褔械谐芯 卸懈胁褟 胁 写芯屑械 褋胁械泻褉芯胁懈 挟谢懈懈, 薪械 褉邪蟹谐芯薪懈褌 薪械锌褉懈泻邪褟薪薪褘褏 写械褌械泄, 锌褉懈胁械褔邪械褌 胁 写芯屑械, 谐写械 懈 褋邪屑邪 薪械 褏芯蟹褟泄泻邪, 泻芯褉屑懈褌 懈蟹 褋胁芯懈褏 褋泻褍写薪褘褏 褋褉械写褋褌胁? 袛邪 锌芯褌芯屑褍 褔褌芯 薪械 屑芯卸械褌 懈薪邪褔械, 锌芯褌芯屑褍 褔褌芯 芯褌泻邪蟹邪胁褕懈褋褜, 锌械褉械褋褌邪薪械褌 斜褘褌褜 褋芯斜芯泄. 小懈谢褜胁懈褟 胁芯 胁褌芯褉芯泄, 邪褎褉懈泻邪薪褋泻芯泄 褔邪褋褌懈 锌褉懈薪芯褋懈褌 褋械斜褟 胁 卸械褉褌胁褍 褌芯屑褍 卸械 褋谢褍卸械薪懈褞. 袧械 锌芯褌芯屑褍, 褔褌芯 褉邪斜芯褌邪 胁 斜芯谢褜薪懈褑械 锌褉懈 屑懈褋褋懈懈 泻邪泻懈屑-褌芯 芯斜褉邪蟹芯屑 褋锌芯褋芯斜褋褌胁褍械褌 械械 泻邪褉褜械褉薪芯屑褍 褉芯褋褌褍 懈谢懈 锌褉懈薪芯褋懈褌 褎懈薪邪薪褋芯胁褘械 胁褘谐芯写褘. 携 胁邪褋 褍屑芯谢褟褞, 芯薪邪 薪邪 褋胁芯懈 褋褉械写褋褌胁邪 褌褍 斜芯谢褜薪懈褑褍 褋芯写械褉卸懈褌.
袠 褔褌芯, 锌褉懈薪芯褋懈褌 褝褌邪 褋邪屑芯芯褌胁械褉卸械薪薪邪褟 褉邪斜芯褌邪 薪邪 懈蟹薪芯褋 泻邪泻懈械-褌芯 写芯斜褉褘械 锌谢芯写褘? 袧褍 泻邪泻, 胁芯褌 薪械 锌芯褕谢懈 卸械 锌芯 泻褉懈胁芯泄 写芯褉芯卸泻械 芯褌芯谐褉械褌褘械 锌芯写褉芯褋褌泻懈, 胁褋褟泻懈泄 芯斜褉械谢 褋胁芯械 屑械褋褌芯 锌芯写 褋芯谢薪褑械屑. 袗谐邪, 懈 谐邪写泻邪褟 袪芯褍蟹, 泻芯褌芯褉邪褟 褋薪邪褔邪谢邪 卸懈谢邪 胁 写芯屑械 挟谢懈懈, 邪 锌芯褌芯屑 芯斜谢懈胁邪谢邪 械械 谐褉褟蟹褜褞 胁 褋胁芯懈褏 褋褌邪褌褜褟褏. 袠 屑邪谢械薪褜泻懈泄 薪械谐褉懈褌械薪芯泻 肖褉邪薪泻谢懈薪, 泻芯褌芯褉褘泄 胁 褋胁芯械泄 泻芯屑屑褍薪懈褋褌懈褔械褋泻芯泄, 屑邪褌褜 械械, 袗褎褉懈泻械 褋写械谢邪械褌褋褟 卸懈褉薪褘屑 泻芯褉褉褍屑锌懈褉芯胁邪薪薪褘屑 屑懈薪懈褋褌褉芯屑-泻褉芯胁芯锌懈泄褑械泄. 效褌芯 写械谢邪褌褜, 写械褉褜屑芯 褋谢褍褔邪械褌褋褟.
袠谢懈 小懈谢褜胁懈褟. 袦薪芯谐芯 写芯斜褉邪 锌褉懈薪械褋谢邪 械泄 褉邪斜芯褌邪 薪邪 懈蟹薪芯褋 胁 斜芯谢褜薪懈褑械, 谐写械 薪懈 屑械写懈泻邪屑械薪褌芯胁. 薪懈 芯斜芯褉褍写芯胁邪薪懈褟, 薪懈 写邪卸械 锌芯屑械褖械薪懈褟 薪械 斜褘谢芯, 泻芯谐写邪 芯薪邪 锌褉懈械褏邪谢邪? 袗褏, 屑械褋褌薪褘械 褋褔懈褌邪谢懈, 褔褌芯 袛芯泻褌芯褉 小懈谢褜胁懈褟 邪薪谐械谢, 锌芯褋谢邪薪薪褘泄 懈屑 褋 薪械斜械褋? 袠 薪械 蟹邪斜褘胁邪谢懈 薪邪锌芯屑懈薪邪褌褜, 褔褌芯 斜械谢褘械 芯褌褌芯谐芯 褌邪泻 斜芯谐邪褌褘, 褔褌芯 胁褋械 褍泻褉邪谢懈 褍 薪懈褏, 褔械褉薪褘褏. 袗 小袩袠袛 - 斜懈芯谢芯谐懈褔械褋泻芯械 芯褉褍卸懈械 斜械谢褘褏 写谢褟 懈褋褌褉械斜谢械薪懈褟 邪褎褉懈泻邪薪褑械胁.
"袙械谢懈泻懈械 屑械褔褌褘" 薪械 锌褉芯 褌芯, 泻邪泻 懈蟹胁谢械褔褜 懈蟹 卸懈蟹薪懈 斜芯谢褜褕械 胁褘谐芯写, 邪 锌褉芯 褌芯, 泻邪泻 写械谢邪械褕褜, 褔械谐芯 薪械 屑芯卸械褕褜 薪械 写械谢邪褌褜. 袩芯薪懈屑邪褟, 褔褌芯 锌芯芯褖褉械薪懈械 写芯褋褌邪薪械褌褋褟 锌褍褋褌芯屑褍 胁械写褉褍, 泻芯褌芯褉芯械 谐褉芯屑褔械 谐褉械屑懈褌 锌芯 褋芯褋械写褋褌胁褍. 袛械谢邪械褕褜, 锌芯褌芯屑褍 褔褌芯 褌褘 褋芯褋褍写 褋 谐芯褉褟褖懈屑 胁薪褍褌褉懈 锌谢邪屑械薪械屑.
And she wrote "Great Dreams" at the age of 82. Once again, in words, eighty-two! If you were looking for a model of decent, active, timeless old age, he is in front of you. Before talking about the novel, it is worth saying a few words about the features of writing. Lessing does not break the text into parts, chapters and sub-chapters. It does not affect the level of reader comfort, these are not Saramagov bricks, without paragraphs, punctuations and dialogues, but the very concept of "content" does not seem to exist in her novels.
"Great Dreams", in fact, are two books that could well be autonomous. The English part is given a little more than half of the volume, it is a multi-figure mixture of a family saga with a novel of growing up, a social pamphlet, a historical and feminist novel. The images are carefully written out, the relationships between the characters are complex and ambiguous. African - as if in contrast, is scarce in all possible respects, and in a few words it could be described as a combination of "one warrior in the field" with "the burden of whites".
From all the variety of figures in the first part, a young woman doctor Sylvia, who grew up in a large disorderly house of the Lennox family, moves to the role of the main character in the second. A couple more characters appear in episodic roles. Surprisingly, the novel makes a surprisingly complete and holistic impression.
袨 谐褉械屑褟褖懈褏 胁械写褉邪褏 懈 芯斜 芯谐薪械, 屑械褉褑邪褞褖械屑 胁 褋芯褋褍写械
小 谢褞写褜屑懈, 泻芯褌芯褉褘械 褋褔懈褌邪谢懈, 褔褌芯 薪邪褉芯写 薪械芯斜褏芯写懈屑芯 蟹邪褖懈褖邪褌褜, 芯斜褉邪褖邪谢懈褋褜 泻邪泻 褋 胁褉邪谐邪屑懈, 懈褏 锌芯写胁械褉谐邪谢懈 薪邪锌邪写泻邪屑 (锌褉懈褔械屑 褋谢芯胁芯 芦褎邪褕懈褋褌禄 斜褘谢芯 械褖械 褋邪屑褘屑 屑褟谐泻懈屑 胁褘褉邪卸械薪懈械屑) 懈 褎懈蟹懈褔械褋泻芯屑褍 薪邪褋懈谢懈褞.
袛芯褉懈褋 袥械褋褋懈薪谐 薪芯斜械谢懈邪薪褌. 袩褍褋褌褜 褉褍谐邪褌褜 胁褘斜芯褉 袧芯斜械谢械胁褋泻芯谐芯 泻芯屑懈褌械褌邪 谢褞斜懈屑邪褟 蟹邪斜邪胁邪 褔懈褌邪褞褖械泄 锌褍斜谢懈泻懈, 袧芯斜械谢褜 蟹薪邪泻 泻邪褔械褋褌胁邪. 袛邪卸械 薪械写芯褍屑械胁邪褟 懈 胁芯蟹屑褍褖邪褟褋褜, 屑褘 薪械 褋芯屑薪械胁邪械屑褋褟 胁 泻芯屑锌械褌械薪褌薪芯褋褌懈 邪泻邪写械屑懈泻芯胁. 袙 褋谢褍褔邪械 袥械褋褋懈薪谐 懈 褋芯屑薪械薪懈泄 斜褘褌褜 薪械 屑芯卸械褌 - 写芯褋褌芯泄薪邪. 小胁芯褞 锌褉械屑懈褞 芯薪邪, 泻 褋谢芯胁褍, 锌芯谢褍褔懈谢邪 蟹邪 写胁邪 谐芯写邪 写芯 写械胁褟薪芯褋褌芯谢械褌懈褟.
袗 "袙械谢懈泻懈械 屑械褔褌褘" 薪邪锌懈褋邪谢邪 胁 82 谐芯写邪. 袝褖械 褉邪蟹, 锌褉芯锌懈褋褜褞, 胁芯褋械屑褜写械褋褟褌 写胁邪! 袝褋谢懈 胁褘 懈褋泻邪谢懈 芯斜褉邪蟹械褑 写芯褋褌芯泄薪芯泄, 写械褟褌械谢褜薪芯泄, 薪械锌芯写胁谢邪褋褌薪芯泄 胁褉械屑械薪懈 褋褌邪褉芯褋褌懈, 芯薪 锌械褉械写 胁邪屑懈. 袩褉械卸写械, 褔械屑 谐芯胁芯褉懈褌褜 芯 褉芯屑邪薪械, 褋褌芯懈褌 褋泻邪蟹邪褌褜 薪械褋泻芯谢褜泻芯 褋谢芯胁 芯斜 芯褋芯斜械薪薪芯褋褌褟褏 锌懈褋褜屑邪. 袥械褋褋懈薪谐 薪械 褉邪蟹斜懈胁邪械褌 褌械泻褋褌 薪邪 褔邪褋褌懈, 谐谢邪胁褘 懈 锌芯写谐谢邪胁褘. 袧邪 褍褉芯胁械薪褜 褔懈褌邪褌械谢褜褋泻芯谐芯 泻芯屑褎芯褉褌邪 薪械 胁谢懈褟械褌, 褝褌芯 薪械 褋邪褉邪屑邪谐芯胁褋泻懈械 泻懈褉锌懈褔懈, 斜械蟹 邪斜蟹邪褑械胁, 芯褌褌芯褔懈泄 懈 写懈邪谢芯谐芯胁, 薪芯 褋邪屑芯谐芯 锌芯薪褟褌懈褟 "褋芯写械褉卸邪薪懈褟" 褋谢芯胁薪芯 斜褘 薪械 褋褍褖械褋褌胁褍械褌 胁 械械 褉芯屑邪薪邪褏.
"袙械谢懈泻懈械 屑械褔褌褘", 锌芯 褋褍褌懈, 写胁械 泻薪懈谐懈, 泻芯褌芯褉褘械 胁锌芯谢薪械 屑芯谐谢懈 斜褘褌褜 邪胁褌芯薪芯屑薪褘屑懈. 袗薪谐谢懈泄褋泻芯泄 褔邪褋褌懈 芯褌写邪薪芯 褔褍褌褜 斜芯谢褜褕械 锌芯谢芯胁懈薪褘 芯斜褗械屑邪, 褝褌芯 屑薪芯谐芯褎懈谐褍褉薪邪褟 褋屑械褋褜 褋械屑械泄薪芯泄 褋邪谐懈 褋 褉芯屑邪薪芯屑 胁蟹褉芯褋谢械薪懈褟, 褋芯褑懈邪谢褜薪褘屑 锌邪屑褎谢械褌芯屑, 懈褋褌芯褉懈褔械褋泻懈屑 懈 褎械屑懈薪懈褋褌褋泻懈屑 褉芯屑邪薪芯屑. 袨斜褉邪蟹褘 褌褖邪褌械谢褜薪芯 胁褘锌懈褋邪薪褘, 芯褌薪芯褕械薪懈褟 屑械卸写褍 锌械褉褋芯薪邪卸邪屑懈 褋谢芯卸薪褘 懈 薪械芯写薪芯蟹薪邪褔薪褘. 袗褎褉懈泻邪薪褋泻邪褟 - 褋谢芯胁薪芯 胁 锌褉芯褌懈胁芯锌芯谢芯卸薪芯褋褌褜, 褋泻褍写薪邪 胁芯 胁褋械褏 胁芯蟹屑芯卸薪褘褏 芯褌薪芯褕械薪懈褟褏, 邪 薪械褋泻芯谢褜泻懈屑懈 褋谢芯胁邪屑懈 械械 屑芯卸薪芯 斜褘谢芯 斜褘 芯锌懈褋邪褌褜, 泻邪泻 褋芯械写懈薪械薪懈械 "芯写懈薪 胁 锌芯谢械 胁芯懈薪" 褋 "斜褉械屑械薪械屑 斜械谢褘褏".
袠蟹 胁褋械谐芯 屑薪芯谐芯芯斜褉邪蟹懈褟 褎懈谐褍褉 锌械褉胁芯泄 褔邪褋褌懈, 胁芯 胁褌芯褉褍褞 锌械褉械泻芯褔械胁褘胁邪械褌 薪邪 褉芯谢褜 谐谢邪胁薪芯泄 谐械褉芯懈薪懈 屑芯谢芯写邪褟 卸械薪褖懈薪邪-胁褉邪褔 小懈谢褜胁懈褟, 胁褘褉芯褋褕邪褟 胁 斜芯谢褜褕芯屑 斜械蟹邪谢邪斜械褉薪芯屑 写芯屑械 袥械薪薪芯泻褋芯胁. 袝褖械 锌邪褉邪 锌械褉褋芯薪邪卸械泄 锌芯褟胁谢褟械褌褋褟 薪邪 褝锌懈蟹芯写懈褔械褋泻懈褏 褉芯谢褟褏. 校写懈胁懈褌械谢褜薪芯, 薪芯 褉芯屑邪薪 锌褉芯懈蟹胁芯写懈褌 褍写懈胁懈褌械谢褜薪芯 褑械谢褜薪芯械 懈 褑械谢芯褋褌薪芯械 胁锌械褔邪褌谢械薪懈械.
袨斜械, 褋褌芯谢褜 褉邪蟹谢懈褔薪褘械 锌芯 褋褌懈谢褞 懈 卸邪薪褉褍, 写械泻芯褉邪褑懈褟屑 褔邪褋褌懈, 薪邪 写械谢械 锌褉芯褔薪芯 褋芯械写懈薪械薪褘 懈写械械泄 胁褘薪械褋械薪薪褘褏 胁 蟹邪谐谢邪胁懈械 胁械谢懈泻懈褏 屑械褔褌邪薪懈泄. 袨 褔械屑? 袨斜 褍屑械薪褜褕械薪懈懈 薪械褋锌褉邪胁械写谢懈胁芯褋褌懈 懈 谐芯褉褟, 锌褉芯懈褋褏芯写褟褖械谐芯 芯褌 褍谐薪械褌械薪懈褟 芯写薪懈褏 写褉褍谐懈屑懈, 芯斜 褍屑薪芯卸械薪懈懈 锌褉邪胁写褘, 写芯斜褉邪, 褋褔邪褋褌褜褟. 袗 薪械 褋谢懈褕泻芯屑 锌邪褎芯褋薪芯 懈 褍褌芯锌懈褔械褋泻懈? 袧懈褔褍褌褜, 斜芯谢褜褕械 褌芯谐芯, 械褋谢懈 褋屑芯褌褉械褌褜 薪邪 褋芯斜褘褌懈褟 褉芯屑邪薪邪 褋泻胁芯蟹褜 锌褉懈蟹屑褍 褝褌芯谐芯 锌芯薪懈屑邪薪懈褟, 锌芯胁械写械薪懈械 械谐芯 谐械褉芯械胁 褋芯胁械褉褕械薪薪芯 谢芯谐懈褔薪芯 懈 屑芯褌懈胁懈褉芯胁邪薪薪芯.
肖褉械薪褋懈褋, 褋懈屑锌邪褌懈褔薪邪褟 懈 褌邪谢邪薪褌谢懈胁邪褟 写械胁褍褕泻邪, 泻芯褌芯褉褍褞 褍谐芯褉邪蟹写懈谢芯 胁谢褟锌邪褌褜褋褟 胁 芯褌薪芯褕械薪懈褟 褋 褌褉械褋泻褍褔懈屑 斜械蟹写械谢褜薪懈泻芯屑 褌芯胁邪褉懈褖械屑 袛卸芯薪薪懈 懈 褉芯写懈褌褜 械屑褍 褋褘薪芯胁械泄-锌芯谐芯写泻芯胁, 锌芯褋谢械 褔械谐芯 屑褍卸械薪械泻 芯褋褌邪胁懈谢 懈褏 胁 薪懈褖械褌械 褉邪写懈 褋胁芯械泄 斜芯褉褜斜褘, 邪 械褖械 锌芯褌芯屑 - 褉邪写懈 写褉褍谐芯泄 卸械薪褖懈薪褘, 薪邪褋褌芯褟褖械谐芯 锌邪褉褌懈泄薪芯谐芯 褌芯胁邪褉懈褖邪. 袩芯褔械屑褍 锌芯褌褟薪褍谢邪褋褜 泻 褏邪褉懈蟹屑邪褌懈褔薪芯屑褍 屑械褉蟹邪胁褑褍? 袦芯卸薪芯 褋锌懈褋邪褌褜 薪邪 谐芯褉屑芯薪邪谢褜薪褘械 斜褍褉懈 懈 芯斜褖褍褞 斜械蟹屑芯蟹谐谢芯褋褌褜 褞薪芯褋褌懈, 薪芯 褋泻芯褉械械 芯褌 褌芯谐芯, 褔褌芯 写褍褕邪 谐芯褉褟褔芯 芯褌泻谢懈泻薪褍谢芯褋褜 薪邪 锌褉懈蟹褘胁 芯斜械蟹写芯谢械薪薪褘褏, 薪械 褉邪褋锌芯蟹薪邪胁 卸械褋褌褟薪泻懈 胁 褉褍锌芯褉械, 泻芯褌芯褉褘泄 械谐芯 褌褉邪薪褋谢懈褉芯胁邪谢.
袨褌褔械谐芯 卸懈胁褟 胁 写芯屑械 褋胁械泻褉芯胁懈 挟谢懈懈, 薪械 褉邪蟹谐芯薪懈褌 薪械锌褉懈泻邪褟薪薪褘褏 写械褌械泄, 锌褉懈胁械褔邪械褌 胁 写芯屑械, 谐写械 懈 褋邪屑邪 薪械 褏芯蟹褟泄泻邪, 泻芯褉屑懈褌 懈蟹 褋胁芯懈褏 褋泻褍写薪褘褏 褋褉械写褋褌胁? 袛邪 锌芯褌芯屑褍 褔褌芯 薪械 屑芯卸械褌 懈薪邪褔械, 锌芯褌芯屑褍 褔褌芯 芯褌泻邪蟹邪胁褕懈褋褜, 锌械褉械褋褌邪薪械褌 斜褘褌褜 褋芯斜芯泄. 小懈谢褜胁懈褟 胁芯 胁褌芯褉芯泄, 邪褎褉懈泻邪薪褋泻芯泄 褔邪褋褌懈 锌褉懈薪芯褋懈褌 褋械斜褟 胁 卸械褉褌胁褍 褌芯屑褍 卸械 褋谢褍卸械薪懈褞. 袧械 锌芯褌芯屑褍, 褔褌芯 褉邪斜芯褌邪 胁 斜芯谢褜薪懈褑械 锌褉懈 屑懈褋褋懈懈 泻邪泻懈屑-褌芯 芯斜褉邪蟹芯屑 褋锌芯褋芯斜褋褌胁褍械褌 械械 泻邪褉褜械褉薪芯屑褍 褉芯褋褌褍 懈谢懈 锌褉懈薪芯褋懈褌 褎懈薪邪薪褋芯胁褘械 胁褘谐芯写褘. 携 胁邪褋 褍屑芯谢褟褞, 芯薪邪 薪邪 褋胁芯懈 褋褉械写褋褌胁邪 褌褍 斜芯谢褜薪懈褑褍 褋芯写械褉卸懈褌.
袠 褔褌芯, 锌褉懈薪芯褋懈褌 褝褌邪 褋邪屑芯芯褌胁械褉卸械薪薪邪褟 褉邪斜芯褌邪 薪邪 懈蟹薪芯褋 泻邪泻懈械-褌芯 写芯斜褉褘械 锌谢芯写褘? 袧褍 泻邪泻, 胁芯褌 薪械 锌芯褕谢懈 卸械 锌芯 泻褉懈胁芯泄 写芯褉芯卸泻械 芯褌芯谐褉械褌褘械 锌芯写褉芯褋褌泻懈, 胁褋褟泻懈泄 芯斜褉械谢 褋胁芯械 屑械褋褌芯 锌芯写 褋芯谢薪褑械屑. 袗谐邪, 懈 谐邪写泻邪褟 袪芯褍蟹, 泻芯褌芯褉邪褟 褋薪邪褔邪谢邪 卸懈谢邪 胁 写芯屑械 挟谢懈懈, 邪 锌芯褌芯屑 芯斜谢懈胁邪谢邪 械械 谐褉褟蟹褜褞 胁 褋胁芯懈褏 褋褌邪褌褜褟褏. 袠 屑邪谢械薪褜泻懈泄 薪械谐褉懈褌械薪芯泻 肖褉邪薪泻谢懈薪, 泻芯褌芯褉褘泄 胁 褋胁芯械泄 泻芯屑屑褍薪懈褋褌懈褔械褋泻芯泄, 屑邪褌褜 械械, 袗褎褉懈泻械 褋写械谢邪械褌褋褟 卸懈褉薪褘屑 泻芯褉褉褍屑锌懈褉芯胁邪薪薪褘屑 屑懈薪懈褋褌褉芯屑-泻褉芯胁芯锌懈泄褑械泄. 效褌芯 写械谢邪褌褜, 写械褉褜屑芯 褋谢褍褔邪械褌褋褟.
袠谢懈 小懈谢褜胁懈褟. 袦薪芯谐芯 写芯斜褉邪 锌褉懈薪械褋谢邪 械泄 褉邪斜芯褌邪 薪邪 懈蟹薪芯褋 胁 斜芯谢褜薪懈褑械, 谐写械 薪懈 屑械写懈泻邪屑械薪褌芯胁. 薪懈 芯斜芯褉褍写芯胁邪薪懈褟, 薪懈 写邪卸械 锌芯屑械褖械薪懈褟 薪械 斜褘谢芯, 泻芯谐写邪 芯薪邪 锌褉懈械褏邪谢邪? 袗褏, 屑械褋褌薪褘械 褋褔懈褌邪谢懈, 褔褌芯 袛芯泻褌芯褉 小懈谢褜胁懈褟 邪薪谐械谢, 锌芯褋谢邪薪薪褘泄 懈屑 褋 薪械斜械褋? 袠 薪械 蟹邪斜褘胁邪谢懈 薪邪锌芯屑懈薪邪褌褜, 褔褌芯 斜械谢褘械 芯褌褌芯谐芯 褌邪泻 斜芯谐邪褌褘, 褔褌芯 胁褋械 褍泻褉邪谢懈 褍 薪懈褏, 褔械褉薪褘褏. 袗 小袩袠袛 - 斜懈芯谢芯谐懈褔械褋泻芯械 芯褉褍卸懈械 斜械谢褘褏 写谢褟 懈褋褌褉械斜谢械薪懈褟 邪褎褉懈泻邪薪褑械胁.
"袙械谢懈泻懈械 屑械褔褌褘" 薪械 锌褉芯 褌芯, 泻邪泻 懈蟹胁谢械褔褜 懈蟹 卸懈蟹薪懈 斜芯谢褜褕械 胁褘谐芯写, 邪 锌褉芯 褌芯, 泻邪泻 写械谢邪械褕褜, 褔械谐芯 薪械 屑芯卸械褕褜 薪械 写械谢邪褌褜. 袩芯薪懈屑邪褟, 褔褌芯 锌芯芯褖褉械薪懈械 写芯褋褌邪薪械褌褋褟 锌褍褋褌芯屑褍 胁械写褉褍, 泻芯褌芯褉芯械 谐褉芯屑褔械 谐褉械屑懈褌 锌芯 褋芯褋械写褋褌胁褍. 袛械谢邪械褕褜, 锌芯褌芯屑褍 褔褌芯 褌褘 褋芯褋褍写 褋 谐芯褉褟褖懈屑 胁薪褍褌褉懈 锌谢邪屑械薪械屑.
June 13, 2019
螠蔚蟿维 伪蟺蠈 150 蟽蔚位委未蔚蟼, 渭蟺伪委谓蔚喂 蟽蟿慰 蠄蠀纬蔚委慰. 危蟿畏谓 魏伪蟿维蠄蠀尉畏 纬喂伪 蟿畏谓 伪魏蟻委尾蔚喂伪.
螘蟽蠂维蟿蠅蟼 蟿畏谓 蟺伪蟿维蠅 蠅蟼 蔚尉萎蟼: 螒魏慰蠉蠅 萎 未喂伪尾维味蠅 蟺慰位蠉 胃蔚蟿喂魏维 蟽蠂蠈位喂伪 纬喂伪 魏维蟺慰喂慰 尾喂尾位委慰 (萎 魏维蟺慰喂伪 尾喂尾位委伪) 蔚谓蠈蟼 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪, 蟽畏渭蔚喂蠋谓蠅 谓慰蔚蟻维 蟿慰 蠈谓慰渭伪, 渭蔚蟿维 伪蟺蠈 魏伪喂蟻蠈 尾蟻委蟽魏蠅 蟺蟻慰蟽蠁慰蟻维 魏维蟺慰喂慰蠀 螒螞螞螣违 尾喂尾位委慰蠀 蟿慰蠀 蔚谓 位蠈纬蠅 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪, 纬喂伪 蟿慰 慰蟺慰委慰 蠈渭蠅蟼 未蔚谓 苇蠂蠅 伪魏慰蠉蟽蔚喂 蟿委蟺慰蟿伪, 蟿慰 伪纬慰蟻维味蠅, 尾纬伪委谓蔚喂 蟺伪蟿维蟿伪.
违蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 魏伪喂 蔚蠀魏慰位蠈蟿蔚蟻慰蟼 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰蟼 谓伪 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻维蠄慰蠀渭蔚 伪蠀蟿萎 蟿畏 蟽蔚喂蟻维 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟿蠅谓 尾苇尾伪喂伪: 蟿畏谓 蟺伪蟿维蠅 危螒螡 螚螞螜螛螜螒.
违蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 蟺蟻慰蠁伪谓萎蟼 位蠈纬慰蟼 蟺慰蠀 "韦慰 蟺喂慰 纬位蠀魏蠈 蠈谓蔚喂蟻慰" 未蔚谓 蟿慰 蔚委蠂蔚 尉伪谓伪魏慰蠉蟽蔚喂 魏伪谓蔚委蟼 纬谓蠅蟽蟿蠈蟼 渭慰蠀, 慰蠉蟿蔚 魏伪谓 慰喂 蟺喂慰 蠁伪谓伪蟿喂魏慰委 蠁伪谓蟼 蟿畏蟼 Lessing 蟺慰蠀 尉苇蟻蠅. 螝伪喂 慰 位蠈纬慰蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 蠈蟿喂 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蔚委谓伪喂 蔚蟺喂蔚喂魏蠋蟼 渭喂伪 蟽慰蠉蟺伪. 螖慰渭萎 未蔚谓 苇蠂蔚喂, 畏 纬蟻伪蠁萎 蔚委谓伪喂 蟽蠀渭蟺伪胃畏蟿喂魏萎 伪位位维 蠈蠂喂 魏维蟿喂 蔚尉蠅蠁蟻蔚谓喂魏维 魏伪位蠈 纬喂伪 谓伪 魏蟻伪蟿萎蟽蔚喂 蟿慰谓 伪谓伪纬谓蠋蟽蟿畏 伪蟺蠈 渭蠈谓慰 蟿慰蠀, 蟺位慰魏萎 未蔚谓 蠀蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂, 纬蔚谓喂魏蠋蟼 未蔚 尾蟻萎魏伪 蟿委蟺慰蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 谓伪 渭蔚 魏维谓蔚喂 谓伪 胃苇位蠅 谓伪 蔚蟺蔚谓未蠉蟽蠅 蠂蟻蠈谓慰 纬喂伪 谓伪 未喂伪尾维蟽蠅 500 蟽蔚位委未蔚蟼 伪蟺蠈 蟿伪 委未喂伪 魏伪喂 蟿伪 委未喂伪.
螘谓 慰位委纬慰喂蟼, 蟿畏 未蔚魏伪蔚蟿委伪 蟿慰蠀 '60 畏 桅蟻维谓蟽喂蟼 螞苇谓慰尉 蟿蟻伪蟺蔚味蠋谓蔚喂 蟿畏谓 蟺伪蟻苇伪 蟿蠅谓 未蠉慰 纬喂蠅谓 蟿畏蟼.
螡伪喂, 伪蠀蟿蠈, 未蔚谓 苇蠂蔚喂 魏维蟿喂 维位位慰. 危蔚尉慰蠀伪位喂魏萎 蔚蟺伪谓维蟽蟿伪蟽畏, 谓伪蟻魏蠅蟿喂魏维, 魏慰渭渭慰蠀谓喂蟽渭蠈蟼, 蟽慰蟽喂伪位喂蟽渭蠈蟼, 伪谓蟿喂蟽慰蟽喂伪位喂蟽渭蠈蟼, 渭蟺慰苇渭喂魏畏 味蠅萎 魏伪喂 维位位蔚蟼 蟿蟻委蠂蔚蟼 魏伪蟿蟽伪蟻苇蟼 蟺蔚蟿伪渭苇谓蔚蟼 渭苇蟽伪 蟽蔚 苇谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 渭伪味委 渭蔚 位委纬慰 伪蟺蠈 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓蔚蟼 蟽蠂苇蟽蔚喂蟼 魏伪喂 蔚蠁畏尾喂魏苇蟼 伪谓畏蟽蠀蠂委蔚蟼. 螌蠂喂 蠈蟿喂 蔚委谓伪喂 维蟽蠂畏渭伪 蠈位伪 伪蠀蟿维 尾苇尾伪喂伪 (伪谓 魏伪喂 慰渭慰位慰纬蠋 蠈蟿喂 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 魏伪喂 蟺慰位蠉 蟿慰蠀 纬慰蠉蟽蟿慰蠀 渭慰蠀 畏 胃蔚渭伪蟿慰位慰纬委伪), 伪位位维 苇蠂蔚喂 蟽畏渭伪蟽委伪 魏伪喂 慰 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰蟼. 螝伪喂 畏 蟽蠀谓蟿伪纬萎 蔚谓 蟺蟻慰魏蔚喂渭苇谓蠅 未蔚谓 萎蟿伪谓 喂未喂伪委蟿蔚蟻伪 蔚蟺喂蟿蠀蠂畏渭苇谓畏 (蔚尉 慰蠀 魏伪喂 畏 蟽慰蠉蟺伪).
螘蟽蠂维蟿蠅蟼 蟿畏谓 蟺伪蟿维蠅 蠅蟼 蔚尉萎蟼: 螒魏慰蠉蠅 萎 未喂伪尾维味蠅 蟺慰位蠉 胃蔚蟿喂魏维 蟽蠂蠈位喂伪 纬喂伪 魏维蟺慰喂慰 尾喂尾位委慰 (萎 魏维蟺慰喂伪 尾喂尾位委伪) 蔚谓蠈蟼 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪, 蟽畏渭蔚喂蠋谓蠅 谓慰蔚蟻维 蟿慰 蠈谓慰渭伪, 渭蔚蟿维 伪蟺蠈 魏伪喂蟻蠈 尾蟻委蟽魏蠅 蟺蟻慰蟽蠁慰蟻维 魏维蟺慰喂慰蠀 螒螞螞螣违 尾喂尾位委慰蠀 蟿慰蠀 蔚谓 位蠈纬蠅 蟽蠀纬纬蟻伪蠁苇伪, 纬喂伪 蟿慰 慰蟺慰委慰 蠈渭蠅蟼 未蔚谓 苇蠂蠅 伪魏慰蠉蟽蔚喂 蟿委蟺慰蟿伪, 蟿慰 伪纬慰蟻维味蠅, 尾纬伪委谓蔚喂 蟺伪蟿维蟿伪.
违蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 魏伪喂 蔚蠀魏慰位蠈蟿蔚蟻慰蟼 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰蟼 谓伪 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻维蠄慰蠀渭蔚 伪蠀蟿萎 蟿畏 蟽蔚喂蟻维 纬蔚纬慰谓蠈蟿蠅谓 尾苇尾伪喂伪: 蟿畏谓 蟺伪蟿维蠅 危螒螡 螚螞螜螛螜螒.
违蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂 蟺蟻慰蠁伪谓萎蟼 位蠈纬慰蟼 蟺慰蠀 "韦慰 蟺喂慰 纬位蠀魏蠈 蠈谓蔚喂蟻慰" 未蔚谓 蟿慰 蔚委蠂蔚 尉伪谓伪魏慰蠉蟽蔚喂 魏伪谓蔚委蟼 纬谓蠅蟽蟿蠈蟼 渭慰蠀, 慰蠉蟿蔚 魏伪谓 慰喂 蟺喂慰 蠁伪谓伪蟿喂魏慰委 蠁伪谓蟼 蟿畏蟼 Lessing 蟺慰蠀 尉苇蟻蠅. 螝伪喂 慰 位蠈纬慰蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 蠈蟿喂 伪蠀蟿蠈 蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蔚委谓伪喂 蔚蟺喂蔚喂魏蠋蟼 渭喂伪 蟽慰蠉蟺伪. 螖慰渭萎 未蔚谓 苇蠂蔚喂, 畏 纬蟻伪蠁萎 蔚委谓伪喂 蟽蠀渭蟺伪胃畏蟿喂魏萎 伪位位维 蠈蠂喂 魏维蟿喂 蔚尉蠅蠁蟻蔚谓喂魏维 魏伪位蠈 纬喂伪 谓伪 魏蟻伪蟿萎蟽蔚喂 蟿慰谓 伪谓伪纬谓蠋蟽蟿畏 伪蟺蠈 渭蠈谓慰 蟿慰蠀, 蟺位慰魏萎 未蔚谓 蠀蟺维蟻蠂蔚喂, 纬蔚谓喂魏蠋蟼 未蔚 尾蟻萎魏伪 蟿委蟺慰蟿伪 蟺慰蠀 谓伪 渭蔚 魏维谓蔚喂 谓伪 胃苇位蠅 谓伪 蔚蟺蔚谓未蠉蟽蠅 蠂蟻蠈谓慰 纬喂伪 谓伪 未喂伪尾维蟽蠅 500 蟽蔚位委未蔚蟼 伪蟺蠈 蟿伪 委未喂伪 魏伪喂 蟿伪 委未喂伪.
螘谓 慰位委纬慰喂蟼, 蟿畏 未蔚魏伪蔚蟿委伪 蟿慰蠀 '60 畏 桅蟻维谓蟽喂蟼 螞苇谓慰尉 蟿蟻伪蟺蔚味蠋谓蔚喂 蟿畏谓 蟺伪蟻苇伪 蟿蠅谓 未蠉慰 纬喂蠅谓 蟿畏蟼.
螡伪喂, 伪蠀蟿蠈, 未蔚谓 苇蠂蔚喂 魏维蟿喂 维位位慰. 危蔚尉慰蠀伪位喂魏萎 蔚蟺伪谓维蟽蟿伪蟽畏, 谓伪蟻魏蠅蟿喂魏维, 魏慰渭渭慰蠀谓喂蟽渭蠈蟼, 蟽慰蟽喂伪位喂蟽渭蠈蟼, 伪谓蟿喂蟽慰蟽喂伪位喂蟽渭蠈蟼, 渭蟺慰苇渭喂魏畏 味蠅萎 魏伪喂 维位位蔚蟼 蟿蟻委蠂蔚蟼 魏伪蟿蟽伪蟻苇蟼 蟺蔚蟿伪渭苇谓蔚蟼 渭苇蟽伪 蟽蔚 苇谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 渭伪味委 渭蔚 位委纬慰 伪蟺蠈 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓蔚蟼 蟽蠂苇蟽蔚喂蟼 魏伪喂 蔚蠁畏尾喂魏苇蟼 伪谓畏蟽蠀蠂委蔚蟼. 螌蠂喂 蠈蟿喂 蔚委谓伪喂 维蟽蠂畏渭伪 蠈位伪 伪蠀蟿维 尾苇尾伪喂伪 (伪谓 魏伪喂 慰渭慰位慰纬蠋 蠈蟿喂 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 魏伪喂 蟺慰位蠉 蟿慰蠀 纬慰蠉蟽蟿慰蠀 渭慰蠀 畏 胃蔚渭伪蟿慰位慰纬委伪), 伪位位维 苇蠂蔚喂 蟽畏渭伪蟽委伪 魏伪喂 慰 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰蟼. 螝伪喂 畏 蟽蠀谓蟿伪纬萎 蔚谓 蟺蟻慰魏蔚喂渭苇谓蠅 未蔚谓 萎蟿伪谓 喂未喂伪委蟿蔚蟻伪 蔚蟺喂蟿蠀蠂畏渭苇谓畏 (蔚尉 慰蠀 魏伪喂 畏 蟽慰蠉蟺伪).
April 22, 2015
丿賵乇賷爻 賱賷爻賷賳噩 賲賳 兀噩賲賱 丕賱兀賯賱丕賲 丕賱廿賳噩賱賷夭賷賴 丕賱鬲賶 賯乇兀鬲 賱賴丕 賮賶 丨賷丕鬲賶,
兀賳孬賶 噩賲賷賱賴 亘賯賱賲 兀賳孬賵賶 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 乇丕卅毓,
兀賵賱 賲丕 賯乇兀鬲 賱賴丕 賰丕賳鬲 乇賵丕賷賴 亘毓賳賵丕賳 (丕賱胤賮賱 丕賱禺丕賲爻) 賵兀賷賯賳鬲 兀賳賳賶 賵賯毓鬲 賮賶 睾乇丕賲 賯賱賲賴丕 賵兀爻賱賵亘賴丕 丕賱爻丨乇,
賵賮賶 賴匕丕 丕賱毓賲賱 (丕賱囟禺賲) 丕賱爻丕丨乇 鬲賯丿賲 賱賳丕 賵丕賯毓 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賮賶 賮鬲乇丞 賲賳鬲氐賮 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱毓卮乇賷賳, 亘兀丨丿丕孬 丕噩鬲賲丕毓賷賴 賯賲丞 丕賱廿亘丿丕毓 毓亘乇 毓賷賳 卮禺氐賷鬲賴丕 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷賴 丕賱噩賲賷賱賴 (賮乇丕賳爻賷爻)鬲賱賰 丕賱賲乇兀丞 丕賱賲賰丕賮丨賴 丕賱賶 鬲囟睾胤賴丕 馗乇賵賮 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賱丿乇噩丞 丕賱兀賳賮噩丕乇,
賰賲 賷禺匕賱賴丕 丕賱乇噩丕賱 賵賰賲 鬲賰丕賮丨 賴賶 賱鬲乇亘賷賴 賵賱丿賷賴丕 賵賰賲 鬲賴鬲賲 亘丨賲丕鬲賴丕 丕賱毓噩賵夭
賵乇睾賲 兀賳 丕賱毓賲賱 賲鬲乇噩賲 廿賱丕 兀賳 丕賱賱睾賴 噩賷丿賴 鬲賳賲 毓賳 丨賽乇賮賷賴 卮丿賷丿賴
丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 丿賯賷賯賴 亘鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賲賴賲賴 鬲毓乇賮 賲賳 禺賱丕賱賴丕 賵丕賯毓 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賮賶 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮鬲乇丞 丕賱亘毓賷丿賴
丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 毓賲賷賯賴 鬲噩丿 賮賷賴丕 丕賱毓賲賯 丕賱賳賮爻賶 丕賱匕賶 賷噩毓賱賰 鬲鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 賰丕賮丞 兀亘毓丕丿 卮禺氐賷丕鬲賴.
賮賶 丕賱賲噩賲賱 毓賲賱 乇賵丕卅賶 賰丕賲賱 賷賳賲 毓賳 丕丨鬲乇丕賮賷鬲賴 賵兀賰丕丿賷賲賷鬲賴 賰爻丕卅乇 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丨丕卅夭賶 賳賵亘賱 ,
賵乇睾賲 囟禺丕賲丞 丕賱毓賲賱 廿賱丕 兀賳賶 丕賳鬲賴賷鬲 賲賳賴 賮賶 賵賯鬲 賲賲鬲丕夭.
兀賳孬賶 噩賲賷賱賴 亘賯賱賲 兀賳孬賵賶 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 乇丕卅毓,
兀賵賱 賲丕 賯乇兀鬲 賱賴丕 賰丕賳鬲 乇賵丕賷賴 亘毓賳賵丕賳 (丕賱胤賮賱 丕賱禺丕賲爻) 賵兀賷賯賳鬲 兀賳賳賶 賵賯毓鬲 賮賶 睾乇丕賲 賯賱賲賴丕 賵兀爻賱賵亘賴丕 丕賱爻丨乇,
賵賮賶 賴匕丕 丕賱毓賲賱 (丕賱囟禺賲) 丕賱爻丕丨乇 鬲賯丿賲 賱賳丕 賵丕賯毓 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賮賶 賮鬲乇丞 賲賳鬲氐賮 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱毓卮乇賷賳, 亘兀丨丿丕孬 丕噩鬲賲丕毓賷賴 賯賲丞 丕賱廿亘丿丕毓 毓亘乇 毓賷賳 卮禺氐賷鬲賴丕 丕賱乇卅賷爻賷賴 丕賱噩賲賷賱賴 (賮乇丕賳爻賷爻)鬲賱賰 丕賱賲乇兀丞 丕賱賲賰丕賮丨賴 丕賱賶 鬲囟睾胤賴丕 馗乇賵賮 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賱丿乇噩丞 丕賱兀賳賮噩丕乇,
賰賲 賷禺匕賱賴丕 丕賱乇噩丕賱 賵賰賲 鬲賰丕賮丨 賴賶 賱鬲乇亘賷賴 賵賱丿賷賴丕 賵賰賲 鬲賴鬲賲 亘丨賲丕鬲賴丕 丕賱毓噩賵夭
賵乇睾賲 兀賳 丕賱毓賲賱 賲鬲乇噩賲 廿賱丕 兀賳 丕賱賱睾賴 噩賷丿賴 鬲賳賲 毓賳 丨賽乇賮賷賴 卮丿賷丿賴
丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 丿賯賷賯賴 亘鬲賮丕氐賷賱 賲賴賲賴 鬲毓乇賮 賲賳 禺賱丕賱賴丕 賵丕賯毓 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 賮賶 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮鬲乇丞 丕賱亘毓賷丿賴
丕賱卮禺氐賷丕鬲 毓賲賷賯賴 鬲噩丿 賮賷賴丕 丕賱毓賲賯 丕賱賳賮爻賶 丕賱匕賶 賷噩毓賱賰 鬲鬲毓乇賮 毓賱賶 賰丕賮丞 兀亘毓丕丿 卮禺氐賷丕鬲賴.
賮賶 丕賱賲噩賲賱 毓賲賱 乇賵丕卅賶 賰丕賲賱 賷賳賲 毓賳 丕丨鬲乇丕賮賷鬲賴 賵兀賰丕丿賷賲賷鬲賴 賰爻丕卅乇 乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丨丕卅夭賶 賳賵亘賱 ,
賵乇睾賲 囟禺丕賲丞 丕賱毓賲賱 廿賱丕 兀賳賶 丕賳鬲賴賷鬲 賲賳賴 賮賶 賵賯鬲 賲賲鬲丕夭.
June 7, 2021
A thought provoking story set in London and later Zimlia or Zimbabwe from the 1960s through to the 1980s. Frances brings up her two boys in her mother-in-law Julia鈥檚 house in Hampstead. Her ex husband is a wastrel and staunch communist. The story brings in Sylvia and her anxieties and anorexia. Rose a person with no redeeming qualities and other friends of the boys where around the kitchen table the world of hippies, social action, rebellion and how to solve the world鈥檚 problems are discussed.
People fall in love, have breakdowns, survive and changes occur. The difference between big organizations such as the World Bank and large charities with small charities and individuals is laid bare. Corruption, cronyism and failure are illustrated. The Zimbabwe story is throughout the later half of the story with Sylvia now a doctor trying to make a difference. The horror of incompetence and the Aids epidemic is illustrated and the futility of the government鈥檚 efforts.
While bigger organizations have their conferences and with their aid money feed the coffers of African despots. Its sad to think nothing really changes or if it does it is slowly.
For me the moral of the story is that individuals can make small changes. That its better to support smaller charities than bigger ones. The failure of Live Aid and the damage Bill Gates is now doing to Africa is evident. They have good intentions but remind me of Andrew and virtue signaling.
Lessing is a great writer in drawing you into the story and questioning your interpretation of the world.
People fall in love, have breakdowns, survive and changes occur. The difference between big organizations such as the World Bank and large charities with small charities and individuals is laid bare. Corruption, cronyism and failure are illustrated. The Zimbabwe story is throughout the later half of the story with Sylvia now a doctor trying to make a difference. The horror of incompetence and the Aids epidemic is illustrated and the futility of the government鈥檚 efforts.
While bigger organizations have their conferences and with their aid money feed the coffers of African despots. Its sad to think nothing really changes or if it does it is slowly.
For me the moral of the story is that individuals can make small changes. That its better to support smaller charities than bigger ones. The failure of Live Aid and the damage Bill Gates is now doing to Africa is evident. They have good intentions but remind me of Andrew and virtue signaling.
Lessing is a great writer in drawing you into the story and questioning your interpretation of the world.
August 7, 2014
Absolutely superb. This is a classic "great novel" - it reminded me very much of Thomas Mann's "Buddenbrooks". It's a tale of a family spanning generations, tracing British society's relationship with communism, and in particular the "Leninist / Stalinist communism" of the Soviet Union and China, from the 1960s to 1990s. It's very much more than that, though - a study of hypocrisy, lip-service, real active humanity vs cynicism, exploitation, and ingratitude.
I found myself arguing with Lessing's politics somewhat, while agreeing with her depiction of human nature. Especially in the early parts of the novel, she appears to be entirely critical of attempts to agitate for social justice and in favour of a more conservative, libertarian "common sense". Happily, as the novel progresses, it's clear she's being a lot more subtle than this, and using "communism" (or the 20th century statist-totalitarian nightmare which called itself "communism") as a hook for hanging her social critique on, in the same way that a 19th century writer would use the church or political protest.
There are lots of echoes - Mrs Jellaby from Bleak House, the three generations of Buddenbrooks, Rousseau, Candide, and a whole lot of Dostoevsky, from Verkhovensky / Stavrogin in The Devils and some very explicit appeals to Sonia from Crime & Punishment. In the end, though, it's a hugely powerful, original, and modern work; its conclusion could be seen as somewhat nihilist, but I prefer to read it as very human: good is its own reward, and is punished accordingly.
I found myself arguing with Lessing's politics somewhat, while agreeing with her depiction of human nature. Especially in the early parts of the novel, she appears to be entirely critical of attempts to agitate for social justice and in favour of a more conservative, libertarian "common sense". Happily, as the novel progresses, it's clear she's being a lot more subtle than this, and using "communism" (or the 20th century statist-totalitarian nightmare which called itself "communism") as a hook for hanging her social critique on, in the same way that a 19th century writer would use the church or political protest.
There are lots of echoes - Mrs Jellaby from Bleak House, the three generations of Buddenbrooks, Rousseau, Candide, and a whole lot of Dostoevsky, from Verkhovensky / Stavrogin in The Devils and some very explicit appeals to Sonia from Crime & Punishment. In the end, though, it's a hugely powerful, original, and modern work; its conclusion could be seen as somewhat nihilist, but I prefer to read it as very human: good is its own reward, and is punished accordingly.
July 23, 2010
Granted, two stars to Doris Lessing is like four stars to anyone else. I just keep on picking up Doris Lessing books and hoping to get something as mind blowing as The Grass is Singing . While The Sweetest Dream was engaging and ambitious, I found the abrupt shift from the ensemble of characters to the focus on a single (supporting) character in the last part of the book hard to justify. I also have kind of a problem with staying focused when reading about hippie whiners, but I thought that the author did a great job contrasting the hero worship of the communist idol against the reality of his utter fecklessness as a human being.
The theme of the book? All too often, life just happens to reasonable people, especially people who don't abandon the moral responsibility to care for others, while the flashier and more selfish people justify leaving a lot of pain in their wake.
The theme of the book? All too often, life just happens to reasonable people, especially people who don't abandon the moral responsibility to care for others, while the flashier and more selfish people justify leaving a lot of pain in their wake.
July 20, 2016
Hadn't read Doris Lessing in years and here she was again, along with all her familiar kinds of people, scenes, concerns, prose. I still don't know how she does it, exactly. I did notice the narrator constantly pulling back from the scene to examine the bigger picture, to reflect in a puzzled way on how "we all" were acting one way or another, how a fashion for shoplifting took hold before anyone knew what hit them, for example - trying to discern the larger movements of social change in which individuals were swept up thinking it was all about them personally, making their individual choices. The London portion of the book felt most familiar and it was no surprise to go to Africa later in the book. What was new was the onset of the AIDS epidemic in her fictional "Zimlia" - based on Zimbabwe, where she grew up when it was Rhodesia. Such a rambly book, all over the place, with characters damaged and challenged in a number of ways, some seemingly born bad . . . and yet I liked it. She swept me up, carried me along for the ride, bumped me over the rapids and swirled me in the whirlpools and rowed me over the calm spots. I expected no less and I got it. The title, not at all by the way, refers to the dream of idealism and the book deals one way and many another with both the damage and the occasional good it can do, but on the whole I'd say Lessing comes down on the side of damage. Her moral compass is set by the people who carry on coping, helping those around them, doing the practical best they can with what's in front of them. There are glimpses of such in this book, barely holding things together as time and floods rush on.
December 22, 2008
I was a child of the 60s in the US. This book reminds me of how old I have become and how idealistic I was. The 60s in Britian were different than in the US, but there were still many similarities. There were children, who left their families to live with other families, because they could not tolerate their parents. There were demonstrations, drugs, sexual promiscuity and a general rebellion against authority and the Establishment, but the Communist Party seemed to play a big role in Britian while the Communists were locked up in the US. I think their history of having survived two world wars helped to shape their behavior. This novel traces the lives of a group of British children who were entering adolesence in the 60s until they entered middle age at the end of the century. Definitely worth reading. If you grew up in the 60s, you may find yourself in one or more of the characters as did I, and you will learn more about yourself and where your life began.
February 27, 2023
I read this book in my twenties and bought it in hardcover after reading and being wonderfully disturbed by The Golden Notebook borrowed from the library. Easier reading with similar themes. I recall a kitchen table and radical, heartwarming conversations (if pessimistic at times). For those interested in politics past and present leaning toward socialism. A highschool friend of mine introduced me to this authors writing. She's difficult reading but worth it. I rounded up here as there aren't any new ideas in this novel; it almost feels like a nod to her blockbuster reminiscing as we do in time, with different characters where love isn't much a theme but a presence as it takes place mostly in a home. I still remember someone's face when he bought it from me. (There are places that value books still, I swear.)
November 29, 2022
Mul tekib alati mingi sisemine vastuolu, kui naiskirjaniku teos ei ole lootusrikas, soe, halastav. Lohuta mind - sa oled ju naine! Ilmselt p盲ikseliste lastekirjanike tahtmatu taak. Atwoodiga on sama lugu nagu Lessinguga - nad on nii ausad ja kohati seet玫ttu ka julmad ning ma tahaks 枚elda, et ei, mulle see raamat ei meeldi, see teeb haiget. Samas ei saa ma tegelikult hinnata mitte kuidagi alla maksimumi, sest kirjutatud on v玫imsalt, 眉le m玫istuse andekalt ja mis sellest k玫igest j盲rele j盲盲ks kui see suhkruvaabaga kaunistada?
"K玫ige ilusam unelm" r盲盲gib inimestest. Sellest, kui hirmus raske on inimeseks saada, inimene olla ja et k玫igi 盲pardunute kiuste leidub siiski ka m玫ni, kes hakkama saab. Aga 眉ldmuljet see ei muuda.听
"Kuidas saaks mitte tahta seda parandada? Aga tahta seda ise parandada - ei, selles on saatan." (lk 410). M枚枚ndustega v玫ib seda tsitaati ka loo moraaliks pidada. Teisalt on aru saada, et autori s眉da kuulub siiski neile, kes 眉ritavad ja v玫ib-olla h盲vivad.
Raamatus on peidus tegelikult kaks raamatut - esimene pool, mis mulle miskip盲rast meenutas praeguse noore menukirjaniku Sally Rooney "Vestlusi s玫pradega". Kusjuures Lessing kirjutas "K玫ige ilusama unelma" 82-aastaselt, aga ju tal oli hea m盲lu ja ju pole teatud vanuses inimeste suhtluses aastatega erilisi muutusi olnud. Siiski v玫ib ka peale nende t眉眉tute noorte tegemistest lugemist 枚elda raamatu moto s玫nadega "Ja lahkuvad inimesed, kes olid s眉damlikud lapsed." Teises osas saavad lastest need inimesed.听
"K玫ige ilusam unelm" r盲盲gib inimestest. Sellest, kui hirmus raske on inimeseks saada, inimene olla ja et k玫igi 盲pardunute kiuste leidub siiski ka m玫ni, kes hakkama saab. Aga 眉ldmuljet see ei muuda.听
"Kuidas saaks mitte tahta seda parandada? Aga tahta seda ise parandada - ei, selles on saatan." (lk 410). M枚枚ndustega v玫ib seda tsitaati ka loo moraaliks pidada. Teisalt on aru saada, et autori s眉da kuulub siiski neile, kes 眉ritavad ja v玫ib-olla h盲vivad.
Raamatus on peidus tegelikult kaks raamatut - esimene pool, mis mulle miskip盲rast meenutas praeguse noore menukirjaniku Sally Rooney "Vestlusi s玫pradega". Kusjuures Lessing kirjutas "K玫ige ilusama unelma" 82-aastaselt, aga ju tal oli hea m盲lu ja ju pole teatud vanuses inimeste suhtluses aastatega erilisi muutusi olnud. Siiski v玫ib ka peale nende t眉眉tute noorte tegemistest lugemist 枚elda raamatu moto s玫nadega "Ja lahkuvad inimesed, kes olid s眉damlikud lapsed." Teises osas saavad lastest need inimesed.听
November 12, 2010
胤丕賱毓鬲 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賮賷 乇賮賵賮 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲貙 廿賱丕 兀賳賾 爻毓乇賴丕 丕賱睾丕賱賷 賰丕賳 賲丨賮夭丕賸 賱賷 賱鬲乇賰賴丕貨 毓賱賾賭賳賷 丕鬲丨氐賱 毓賱賷賴丕 賮賷 賲賵賯毓 賴賳丕 丕賵 賲噩賱丿賺 賴賳丕賰. 廿賱丕 丕賳賷 胤賲毓鬲 賮賷賴丕 賰孬賷乇丕賸 丨賷賳賲丕 賵噩丿鬲賴丕 賮賷 賲毓乇囟 丕賱兀賷丕賲 丕賱孬賯丕賮賷 賮賷 丕賱賲賳丕賲丞貙 丕賱毓丕氐賲丞 丕賱亘丨乇賷賳賷賾丞貙 賮丕賯鬲賳賷鬲賴丕 亘爻毓乇 賷禺鬲賱賮 亘卮賰賱 賷爻賷乇 ( 60 乇賷丕賱! ) 賮賷 爻亘鬲賲亘乇 丕賱賲丕囟賷. 賵丕賱丌賳貙 兀噩丿賴丕 賯丿 賯丕乇亘鬲 賴匕丕 丕賱爻毓乇 賮賷 乇賮賵賮 丕賱賲賰鬲亘丕鬲.
丕賱亘丕乇丨丞貙 賰丕賳 丌禺乇 毓賴丿賷 賮賷 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞. 氐賮丨丕鬲賴丕 鈥� 匕丕鬲 丕賱丨噩賲 丕賱賵夭賷乇賷 鈥� 賰丕賳鬲 賲賲賱賵亍丞 亘丕賱兀丨丿丕孬. 兀賲賭賭丕 丕賱丨賵丕乇丕鬲貙 賮賴賳丕 賵賴賳丕賰 鬲噩丿賴丕 賲亘毓孬乇丞. 廿賱丕 兀賳 丕賱氐毓賵亘丞 賰賱 丕賱氐毓賵亘丞貙 賵丕賱爻賵亍 賰賱賴 賮賷 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞貙 丕賱鬲賷 丨丕賰鬲 亘丕爻賴丕亘 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 丕賱丨乇賮賷丞 賲賳 丿賵賳 鬲丿禺賱 賲賳 賯賽亘賱 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 賱鬲毓丿賷賱 賴匕丕 賵鬲賯賵賷丞 匕丕賰貙 賵匕賱賰 賲丕 賷噩毓賱賰 鬲毓賷丿 賯乇丕亍丞 亘毓囟 丕賱賳氐賵氐 賵丕賱氐賮丨丕鬲貨 賲丨丕賵賱丕賸 賮賴賲賴丕!
亘丿丕賷丞 丕賱乇賵丕锟斤拷丞 賰丕賳鬲 賲乇亘賰丞貙 賵乇睾賲 賲賷賱賷 賱賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱胤賵賷賱丞貙 廿賱丕 兀賳賳賷 毓丕賳賷鬲 賮鬲乇丞 丨鬲賶 丕爻鬲胤毓鬲 丕賱鬲賵賮賷賯 亘賷賳 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 賮賷 亘丿丕賷丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 亘毓丿 賲爻賷乇丞 鬲賯丕乇亘 丕賱賲卅丞 氐賮丨丞 賲賳賴丕!
賰丕賳鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丨丕賵賱 賲丨丕賰丕丞 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱亘乇賷胤丕賳賷 禺賱丕賱 丨賯亘丞 丕賱爻鬲賷賳賷丕鬲 1960s 亘賰賱 賲丕 賮賷賴丕 賲賳 鬲賮丕氐賷賱貙 丨鬲賶 匕賱賰 丕賱鬲賵噩賴 丕賱賰亘賷乇 賱賱鬲亘卮賷乇 賮賷 丕賱兀丨乇丕卮 丕賱兀賮乇賷賯賭賷賾丞. 乇賵丕賷丞 賳噩丨鬲 賮賷 毓賰爻 鬲賳丕賯囟丕鬲 噩賷賱賭賻賷 丕賱卮亘丕亘 賵丕賱賰亘丕乇 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮鬲乇丞貙 賱鬲賮爻賾乇賻 毓賲賯 丕賱卮乇禺 丿丕禺賱 丕賱毓賱丕賯丕鬲 丕賱兀爻乇賷丞 賵丕賱毓丕卅賱賷賾丞 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲.
賵賱毓賻賱賾 兀噩賲賱 賲丕 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲賳 賵噩賴丞 賳馗乇賷貙 賵賲丕 丕爻鬲賴賱賰賻 賰孬賷乇丕賸 賲賳 兀噩夭丕卅賴丕貙 賴賵 丕賱賯爻賲 丕賱賲鬲毓賱賯 亘兀賮乇賷賯賷丕貙 賵亘丕賱鬲丨丿賷丿 賮賷 夭賷賲賱丕賷丕 鈥� 賰賲丕 鬲賯賵賱 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 鈥� 賵丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱鬲胤賵毓賷 賮賷賴丕貙 毓亘乇 亘毓孬丕鬲 丕賱鬲亘卮賷乇. 賵乇睾賲 賲賷賱 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 丕賱毓賳賷賮 賱賱乇噩賱 丕賱兀亘賷囟貙 賵丕賳鬲賯丕丿賴丕 賱鬲氐乇賮丕鬲 丕賱爻賵丿 鈥� 乇睾賲 賯囟丕卅賴丕 賮鬲乇丞 胤賵賷賱丞 賲毓賴賲 賰賲丕 賷賯賵賱 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 鈥� 廿賱丕 兀賳賴丕 丕丨爻賳鬲 賵氐賮 丕賱丨丕賱丞 丕賱賲毓丕卮丞 賴賳丕賰 賮賷 賲噩丕賴賱 兀賮乇賷賯賷丕貙 賵丕賱鬲賷 賱丕 兀鬲氐賵乇 鬲睾賷賾乇賴丕 乇睾賲 賴匕賴 丕賱爻賳賷賳貙 賵廿賳 賱賲 兀 購賵賻賮賯 賱夭賷丕乇鬲賴丕.
禺賭賻鬲賲鬲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 亘孬賱丕孬 賳賴丕賷丕鬲貙 賲賵鬲 賲賮丕噩卅 賵賴賵 賮賷 賳馗乇賷 賳賴丕賷丞 乇鬲賷賭亘丞. 賵鬲丨賯賷賯 兀丨賱丕賲 氐亘賷賷賳 丕賳囟賲丕 丨丿賷孬丕賸 賱賱毓丕卅賱丞貙 賵匕賱賰 兀賰孬乇 乇鬲丕亘丞. 廿賱丕 兀賳賾 賲卮賴丿 丕賱胤賮賵賱丞 丕賱兀禺賷乇貙 賮賷 賱賳丿賳貙 賰丕賳 賲卮賴丿丕賸 噩賭賽丿 噩賲賷賱.
鬲亘賯賶 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 丿毓賵丞 賲賮鬲賵丨丞 賱賲賳 賷乇睾亘 賮賷 賲毓乇賮丞 亘丐爻 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲 丕賱睾乇亘賷丞 賲賳 丕賱賳丕丨賷丞 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓賷賾丞貙 賵鬲賮賰賰賽賴丕貙 亘丕毓鬲乇丕賮 兀賴賱賴丕 賵賰鬲賭賾丕亘賴丕. 賵丕丨亘 丕賱鬲兀賰賷丿 毓賱賶 丕賱賮賰乇丞 丕賱噩賷丿丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲毓胤賷賴丕 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鈥� 乇睾賲 爻毓乇賴丕 丕賱賲乇鬲賮毓 噩丿丕賸 鈥� 毓賳 丕賱賵囟毓 丕賱兀賮乇賷賯賷貙 賵賰賲丕 賯賱鬲 爻丕亘賯丕賸貙 賱丕 兀馗賳 兀賳 丕賱賵囟毓賷賳 賯丿 丕禺鬲賮丕..廿賱賶 賷賵賲賳丕 賴匕丕!
丕賱賲賷乇 丿丕賲賭丕丿
丕賱亘丕乇丨丞貙 賰丕賳 丌禺乇 毓賴丿賷 賮賷 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞. 氐賮丨丕鬲賴丕 鈥� 匕丕鬲 丕賱丨噩賲 丕賱賵夭賷乇賷 鈥� 賰丕賳鬲 賲賲賱賵亍丞 亘丕賱兀丨丿丕孬. 兀賲賭賭丕 丕賱丨賵丕乇丕鬲貙 賮賴賳丕 賵賴賳丕賰 鬲噩丿賴丕 賲亘毓孬乇丞. 廿賱丕 兀賳 丕賱氐毓賵亘丞 賰賱 丕賱氐毓賵亘丞貙 賵丕賱爻賵亍 賰賱賴 賮賷 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞貙 丕賱鬲賷 丨丕賰鬲 亘丕爻賴丕亘 丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 丕賱丨乇賮賷丞 賲賳 丿賵賳 鬲丿禺賱 賲賳 賯賽亘賱 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 賱鬲毓丿賷賱 賴匕丕 賵鬲賯賵賷丞 匕丕賰貙 賵匕賱賰 賲丕 賷噩毓賱賰 鬲毓賷丿 賯乇丕亍丞 亘毓囟 丕賱賳氐賵氐 賵丕賱氐賮丨丕鬲貨 賲丨丕賵賱丕賸 賮賴賲賴丕!
亘丿丕賷丞 丕賱乇賵丕锟斤拷丞 賰丕賳鬲 賲乇亘賰丞貙 賵乇睾賲 賲賷賱賷 賱賱乇賵丕賷丕鬲 丕賱胤賵賷賱丞貙 廿賱丕 兀賳賳賷 毓丕賳賷鬲 賮鬲乇丞 丨鬲賶 丕爻鬲胤毓鬲 丕賱鬲賵賮賷賯 亘賷賳 丕賱兀丨丿丕孬 賮賷 亘丿丕賷丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 亘毓丿 賲爻賷乇丞 鬲賯丕乇亘 丕賱賲卅丞 氐賮丨丞 賲賳賴丕!
賰丕賳鬲 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鬲丨丕賵賱 賲丨丕賰丕丞 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓 丕賱亘乇賷胤丕賳賷 禺賱丕賱 丨賯亘丞 丕賱爻鬲賷賳賷丕鬲 1960s 亘賰賱 賲丕 賮賷賴丕 賲賳 鬲賮丕氐賷賱貙 丨鬲賶 匕賱賰 丕賱鬲賵噩賴 丕賱賰亘賷乇 賱賱鬲亘卮賷乇 賮賷 丕賱兀丨乇丕卮 丕賱兀賮乇賷賯賭賷賾丞. 乇賵丕賷丞 賳噩丨鬲 賮賷 毓賰爻 鬲賳丕賯囟丕鬲 噩賷賱賭賻賷 丕賱卮亘丕亘 賵丕賱賰亘丕乇 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮鬲乇丞貙 賱鬲賮爻賾乇賻 毓賲賯 丕賱卮乇禺 丿丕禺賱 丕賱毓賱丕賯丕鬲 丕賱兀爻乇賷丞 賵丕賱毓丕卅賱賷賾丞 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲.
賵賱毓賻賱賾 兀噩賲賱 賲丕 賮賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賲賳 賵噩賴丞 賳馗乇賷貙 賵賲丕 丕爻鬲賴賱賰賻 賰孬賷乇丕賸 賲賳 兀噩夭丕卅賴丕貙 賴賵 丕賱賯爻賲 丕賱賲鬲毓賱賯 亘兀賮乇賷賯賷丕貙 賵亘丕賱鬲丨丿賷丿 賮賷 夭賷賲賱丕賷丕 鈥� 賰賲丕 鬲賯賵賱 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 鈥� 賵丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱鬲胤賵毓賷 賮賷賴丕貙 毓亘乇 亘毓孬丕鬲 丕賱鬲亘卮賷乇. 賵乇睾賲 賲賷賱 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 丕賱毓賳賷賮 賱賱乇噩賱 丕賱兀亘賷囟貙 賵丕賳鬲賯丕丿賴丕 賱鬲氐乇賮丕鬲 丕賱爻賵丿 鈥� 乇睾賲 賯囟丕卅賴丕 賮鬲乇丞 胤賵賷賱丞 賲毓賴賲 賰賲丕 賷賯賵賱 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 鈥� 廿賱丕 兀賳賴丕 丕丨爻賳鬲 賵氐賮 丕賱丨丕賱丞 丕賱賲毓丕卮丞 賴賳丕賰 賮賷 賲噩丕賴賱 兀賮乇賷賯賷丕貙 賵丕賱鬲賷 賱丕 兀鬲氐賵乇 鬲睾賷賾乇賴丕 乇睾賲 賴匕賴 丕賱爻賳賷賳貙 賵廿賳 賱賲 兀 購賵賻賮賯 賱夭賷丕乇鬲賴丕.
禺賭賻鬲賲鬲 丕賱賰丕鬲亘丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 亘孬賱丕孬 賳賴丕賷丕鬲貙 賲賵鬲 賲賮丕噩卅 賵賴賵 賮賷 賳馗乇賷 賳賴丕賷丞 乇鬲賷賭亘丞. 賵鬲丨賯賷賯 兀丨賱丕賲 氐亘賷賷賳 丕賳囟賲丕 丨丿賷孬丕賸 賱賱毓丕卅賱丞貙 賵匕賱賰 兀賰孬乇 乇鬲丕亘丞. 廿賱丕 兀賳賾 賲卮賴丿 丕賱胤賮賵賱丞 丕賱兀禺賷乇貙 賮賷 賱賳丿賳貙 賰丕賳 賲卮賴丿丕賸 噩賭賽丿 噩賲賷賱.
鬲亘賯賶 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞貙 丿毓賵丞 賲賮鬲賵丨丞 賱賲賳 賷乇睾亘 賮賷 賲毓乇賮丞 亘丐爻 鬲賱賰 丕賱賲噩鬲賲毓丕鬲 丕賱睾乇亘賷丞 賲賳 丕賱賳丕丨賷丞 丕賱丕噩鬲賲丕毓賷賾丞貙 賵鬲賮賰賰賽賴丕貙 亘丕毓鬲乇丕賮 兀賴賱賴丕 賵賰鬲賭賾丕亘賴丕. 賵丕丨亘 丕賱鬲兀賰賷丿 毓賱賶 丕賱賮賰乇丞 丕賱噩賷丿丞 丕賱鬲賷 鬲毓胤賷賴丕 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 鈥� 乇睾賲 爻毓乇賴丕 丕賱賲乇鬲賮毓 噩丿丕賸 鈥� 毓賳 丕賱賵囟毓 丕賱兀賮乇賷賯賷貙 賵賰賲丕 賯賱鬲 爻丕亘賯丕賸貙 賱丕 兀馗賳 兀賳 丕賱賵囟毓賷賳 賯丿 丕禺鬲賮丕..廿賱賶 賷賵賲賳丕 賴匕丕!
丕賱賲賷乇 丿丕賲賭丕丿
November 15, 2016
I initially got this book to read for The Dead Writers Society Literary Birthday. But it took forever for me to get, and by the time I started/finished October was over. So unfortunately it doesn't count.
That said, I wish I had skipped this book. It was all over the place with too many characters/motivations and just horrible choices of all concerned.
I really don't want to even get too into this book besides the basics. A man named Johnny Lennox raised in the lap of luxury for his times and place eventually rebels against his family and becomes a communist. He marries a woman named Frances and they have two sons. Because of communist teachings, Johnny is loathe to take anything from his father or his mother Julia. The whole book really is about all of these people, Johnny's second or maybe third wife, his wife's daughter Sylvia, and the two sons (Andrew and Colin) friends who end up all descending on Julia's home through the years.
The whole book felt very scattered to me and I honestly was bored. I didn't really like anyone save for Julia. A German woman moving to England with her husband and having to deal with the fact that her son becomes a selfish stranger.
I assume there's a larger point to this story, about how those who once were all for communist after World War II eventually fell way to the god of capitalism or something. But seriously, these people felt like cartoon characters after a while.
That said, I wish I had skipped this book. It was all over the place with too many characters/motivations and just horrible choices of all concerned.
I really don't want to even get too into this book besides the basics. A man named Johnny Lennox raised in the lap of luxury for his times and place eventually rebels against his family and becomes a communist. He marries a woman named Frances and they have two sons. Because of communist teachings, Johnny is loathe to take anything from his father or his mother Julia. The whole book really is about all of these people, Johnny's second or maybe third wife, his wife's daughter Sylvia, and the two sons (Andrew and Colin) friends who end up all descending on Julia's home through the years.
The whole book felt very scattered to me and I honestly was bored. I didn't really like anyone save for Julia. A German woman moving to England with her husband and having to deal with the fact that her son becomes a selfish stranger.
I assume there's a larger point to this story, about how those who once were all for communist after World War II eventually fell way to the god of capitalism or something. But seriously, these people felt like cartoon characters after a while.
August 24, 2020
Est谩 dividida en dos partes en la primera se refleja la atm贸sfera de una casa muy poco convencional y en la segunda la vida de una de sus habitantes en el 脕frica pre-descolonizaci贸n. Las dos comparten personajes, trazos de historia, de pol铆tica, de cr铆tica social y una trama con un narrador que lo explica todo, demasiado, sin estructura de cambio de cap铆tulo ni de cambio de personaje lo que hace que aveces resulte liosa. Empieza bien y est谩 muy bien escrita pero enseguida se me hizo pesada por lo lenta y repetitiva que es. Cuando la historia se traslada a 脕frica me pas贸 un poco igual pero me cans贸 a煤n m谩s por lo lento de esta parte sin apenas di谩logos y exceso de reflexiones y datos hist贸ricos de un pa铆s imaginario.No me ha resultado una lectura sencilla ni amena y me han sobrado much铆simas p谩ginas pero hace reflexionar .
September 18, 2021
Confesso que no in铆cio n茫o me foi muito f谩cil entrar na hist贸ria porque as descri莽玫es dos jantares eram exaustivas e as partes pol铆ticas n茫o me suscitam muito interesse.
Contudo, quando a Sylvia foi para 脕frica toda a perspectiva do livro mudou para mim, achei fant谩sticas as explica莽玫es das cren莽as e dos lugares e de louvar o trabalho das pessoas.
Gostei de ao longo da obra acompanhar o percurso das personagens, lamentando a morte de Sylvia.
Contudo, quando a Sylvia foi para 脕frica toda a perspectiva do livro mudou para mim, achei fant谩sticas as explica莽玫es das cren莽as e dos lugares e de louvar o trabalho das pessoas.
Gostei de ao longo da obra acompanhar o percurso das personagens, lamentando a morte de Sylvia.
September 4, 2017
Previously, I had only read a short story or two by Doris Lessing, and she has been on my to-read list for awhile. I picked up The Sweetest Dream from a library book sale in Princeton, when I was living there, and the book had a long internment in my trunk, until shortly before leaving Philadelphia.
The Sweetest Dream follows the story of the Lennox family from Frances and Johnny's young adulthood into the beginning of their senior citizen years. Frances, the matriarch of the family who manages to keep everyone going for a time, sacrifices her own dreams of being in the theater repeatedly throughout the book, while Johnny's selfish Communism begs to be supported by one starry-eyed woman after another. Their sons, Andrew and Colin, find they must build their lives around the drama, which ends up bringing them into Julia's, their grandmother's, life and home. A good portion of the book focuses on the 1960s and serves as a critique for the way of life, politics, and the expectations parents set for their children at the the time.
Being relatively unfamiliar with Lessing's style, I was surprised by several things, including the indulgent meandering of the plot. There seems to be no urgency to what happens next, and I was thoroughly thrown by what seemed to be a casual passage of time. In the first section of the book, which lacks paragraphs and sections, I was surprised that the emotional intensity of the young Frances is so casually shifted from being a young mother to middle-aged and eventually into her later years. The passage of time and age in The Sweetest Dream seems without consequence.
Indeed, when characters die, the impact of their deaths seems to have little emotional impact on the other characters, though they are affected practically by the absence.
I was also surprised by the rabid criticism of feminism, which was identified as simply being a way for women to hate on men and nothing more complicated. Likable characters in the book, Frances included, behave as feminists throughout out their lives, but with none of the rhetoric or political activity.
The Sweetest Dream was an interesting read, in part because I did not know what to make of Lessing's use of time. The book continues well after the 1960s, when it seems it should have ended decades ago, when the reader was more centered in the characters' lives and their tales were more urgent. I suppose that with reading more Lessing, I will gain a deeper understanding of her writing, methods, and philosophy. Upon finishing The Sweetest Dream, I am admittedly off put by the pessimism with which she treats politics, the past, and the ambitions of her characters. I am not used to this brand of pessimism from American novels.
The Sweetest Dream follows the story of the Lennox family from Frances and Johnny's young adulthood into the beginning of their senior citizen years. Frances, the matriarch of the family who manages to keep everyone going for a time, sacrifices her own dreams of being in the theater repeatedly throughout the book, while Johnny's selfish Communism begs to be supported by one starry-eyed woman after another. Their sons, Andrew and Colin, find they must build their lives around the drama, which ends up bringing them into Julia's, their grandmother's, life and home. A good portion of the book focuses on the 1960s and serves as a critique for the way of life, politics, and the expectations parents set for their children at the the time.
Being relatively unfamiliar with Lessing's style, I was surprised by several things, including the indulgent meandering of the plot. There seems to be no urgency to what happens next, and I was thoroughly thrown by what seemed to be a casual passage of time. In the first section of the book, which lacks paragraphs and sections, I was surprised that the emotional intensity of the young Frances is so casually shifted from being a young mother to middle-aged and eventually into her later years. The passage of time and age in The Sweetest Dream seems without consequence.
Indeed, when characters die, the impact of their deaths seems to have little emotional impact on the other characters, though they are affected practically by the absence.
I was also surprised by the rabid criticism of feminism, which was identified as simply being a way for women to hate on men and nothing more complicated. Likable characters in the book, Frances included, behave as feminists throughout out their lives, but with none of the rhetoric or political activity.
The Sweetest Dream was an interesting read, in part because I did not know what to make of Lessing's use of time. The book continues well after the 1960s, when it seems it should have ended decades ago, when the reader was more centered in the characters' lives and their tales were more urgent. I suppose that with reading more Lessing, I will gain a deeper understanding of her writing, methods, and philosophy. Upon finishing The Sweetest Dream, I am admittedly off put by the pessimism with which she treats politics, the past, and the ambitions of her characters. I am not used to this brand of pessimism from American novels.
May 5, 2024
Li este livro com gosto, apesar de ter partes muito lentas e at茅 aborrecidas e outras demasiado velozes. Acho que 茅 um livro desequilibrado, estranho. As personagens s茫o interessantes, embora a maioria seja muito irritante.
A maior parte da hist贸ria situa-se nos anos 60, em Londres e tem como cen谩rio principal uma casa que alberga uma fam铆lia e v谩rios jovens perdidos e sem rumo. A casa pertence a Julia, m茫e de Johnny que teve dois filhos com Frances.
脡 apresentada a hist贸ria de Julia, selecta, educada e discreta que vai viver para Inglaterra com o marido na altura da primeira guerra. O filho 茅 um tipo in煤til, com ideais comunistas que se traduzem numa vida bastante f煤til e pouco produtiva.
Depois da separa莽茫o de Johnny e Frances, Julia acaba por convidar a ex-nora e os netos para viverem com ela numa parte da sua imensa habita莽茫o.
Frances 茅 uma pessoa generosa e n茫o consegue fechar literalmente a porta a jovens que pedem ajuda e a casa transforma-se numa esp茅cie de abrigo juvenil. Vivem l谩 mi煤dos arrogantes e mesquinhos, perturbados, ego铆stas, assustados. De todos, a hist贸ria passa para Sylvia, uma rapariga insegura e emocionalmente inst谩vel, com um quadro de anorexia, tamb茅m filha de Johnny. A fam铆lia, em particular J煤lia, consegue ajud谩-la a organizar-se e a encontrar um objectivo de vida. Torna-se m茅dica e parte para 脕frica, auxiliando uma popula莽茫o pobre, doente com muitas maleitas incluindo SIDA. A narrativa ganha uma nova din芒mica com esta mudan莽a de cen谩rio, mas tamb茅m se percebe que os locais n茫o salvam as pessoas. Sylvia regressa a Londres mais tarde, infeliz, doente e preocupada.
A personagem mais intrigante para mim 茅 Frances por tantas vezes se anular enquanto mulher e pessoa para satisfazer os desejos dos outros. A generosidade e o amor confundem-se com passividade ou 茅 o contr谩rio?
Fiquei curiosa para ler outros livros da Doris Lessing 馃馃摎
A maior parte da hist贸ria situa-se nos anos 60, em Londres e tem como cen谩rio principal uma casa que alberga uma fam铆lia e v谩rios jovens perdidos e sem rumo. A casa pertence a Julia, m茫e de Johnny que teve dois filhos com Frances.
脡 apresentada a hist贸ria de Julia, selecta, educada e discreta que vai viver para Inglaterra com o marido na altura da primeira guerra. O filho 茅 um tipo in煤til, com ideais comunistas que se traduzem numa vida bastante f煤til e pouco produtiva.
Depois da separa莽茫o de Johnny e Frances, Julia acaba por convidar a ex-nora e os netos para viverem com ela numa parte da sua imensa habita莽茫o.
Frances 茅 uma pessoa generosa e n茫o consegue fechar literalmente a porta a jovens que pedem ajuda e a casa transforma-se numa esp茅cie de abrigo juvenil. Vivem l谩 mi煤dos arrogantes e mesquinhos, perturbados, ego铆stas, assustados. De todos, a hist贸ria passa para Sylvia, uma rapariga insegura e emocionalmente inst谩vel, com um quadro de anorexia, tamb茅m filha de Johnny. A fam铆lia, em particular J煤lia, consegue ajud谩-la a organizar-se e a encontrar um objectivo de vida. Torna-se m茅dica e parte para 脕frica, auxiliando uma popula莽茫o pobre, doente com muitas maleitas incluindo SIDA. A narrativa ganha uma nova din芒mica com esta mudan莽a de cen谩rio, mas tamb茅m se percebe que os locais n茫o salvam as pessoas. Sylvia regressa a Londres mais tarde, infeliz, doente e preocupada.
A personagem mais intrigante para mim 茅 Frances por tantas vezes se anular enquanto mulher e pessoa para satisfazer os desejos dos outros. A generosidade e o amor confundem-se com passividade ou 茅 o contr谩rio?
Fiquei curiosa para ler outros livros da Doris Lessing 馃馃摎
November 26, 2014
Loved this with the power of a thousand suns. There are some parts I read over and over, both from enjoying them so much and so as not to finish the book too quickly.
The tale of three generations spanning the 20th century, bound by a house in Hampstead where an extra spare bed can always be found, must surely be one of Lessing's finest. From Germany before World War I, via London as the Sixties begin to swing, to the fictional African country of Zimlia (a stand in for Zimbabwe, or Rhodesia as it was when Lessing was growing up), it is ambitious in scale but dazzlingly realised. By the end, the reader feels as if these are old friends, you could almost wander into Frances's kitchen for a cup of tea and to catch up on how everyone is doing.
As well as living, loving and all the usual stuff in between, reluctant patriarch Johnny guards the flame of Revolution, prepared to sacrifice family, loves, children and ultimately whole populations on the altar of ideology.
The shift to Africa and the machinations of international aid is at first a jarring one, so firmly ensconced are we in Julia and France's house. However, it is here that Doris Lessing's power as a writer really shines through, as deft with the small details of character's lives as she is with the march of history.
The Sweetest Dream is the story of how we got to where we are, showing that the family ties that hold us the closest are not necessarily the ones between blood relations. I think Johnny and Frances are also the perfect demonstration that those who theorise would not get as far without the ones who roll up their sleeves and get on with making life better for those around them.
A great read and one I am sure I will be coming back to before too long.
The tale of three generations spanning the 20th century, bound by a house in Hampstead where an extra spare bed can always be found, must surely be one of Lessing's finest. From Germany before World War I, via London as the Sixties begin to swing, to the fictional African country of Zimlia (a stand in for Zimbabwe, or Rhodesia as it was when Lessing was growing up), it is ambitious in scale but dazzlingly realised. By the end, the reader feels as if these are old friends, you could almost wander into Frances's kitchen for a cup of tea and to catch up on how everyone is doing.
As well as living, loving and all the usual stuff in between, reluctant patriarch Johnny guards the flame of Revolution, prepared to sacrifice family, loves, children and ultimately whole populations on the altar of ideology.
The shift to Africa and the machinations of international aid is at first a jarring one, so firmly ensconced are we in Julia and France's house. However, it is here that Doris Lessing's power as a writer really shines through, as deft with the small details of character's lives as she is with the march of history.
The Sweetest Dream is the story of how we got to where we are, showing that the family ties that hold us the closest are not necessarily the ones between blood relations. I think Johnny and Frances are also the perfect demonstration that those who theorise would not get as far without the ones who roll up their sleeves and get on with making life better for those around them.
A great read and one I am sure I will be coming back to before too long.
January 8, 2018
In her first first 20 pages, Doris Lessing puts us in a London-area house with a well-developed cast of characters, a sure sign of her mastery. The Sweetest Dream then immerses us in a crash-course history that's well written, concise and centered around one of the novel's matriarchs. The lead up to and 1960s and beyond scene at the house features compelling, emotional chaos punctuated with moments of awe-inspiring compassion. Lessing follows and further develops the feelings and quirks of her characters through the seasons, and goes in depth at a couple of Christmas seasons. There's the stark contrast of the two leading women who are all about family juxtaposed on a turbulent political climate and the characters immersed in that and too deeply in their work. The book is so relevant to present day for its politics, history and just when you're wondering what will happen next in the London house, a main character goes to Africa to confront her and other demons: AIDs, corruption, utter poverty and the various false senses of entitlement various players hold dear. It's a marvelous, sometimes tragic book right to an end that leaves the reader hopeful, enlightened. This is a must read.
November 14, 2008
Apesar do 贸bvio prest铆gio vencer o Pr茅mio Nobel nem sempre 茅 sin贸nimo de conseguir um romance realmente bem escrito e que nos fique na mem贸ria.
Mas este "O Sonho Mais Doce" 茅 um exemplo de como se consegue retratar com mestria personagens que se tornam reais porque 茅 f谩cil a identifica莽茫o com as suas trag茅dias e sucessos.
Para mim foi particularmente surpreendente a evolu莽茫o do clima dos anos 60 londrino para a dura realidade africana retratada sem o preconceito t茫o disseminado do politicamente correcto.
Mas este "O Sonho Mais Doce" 茅 um exemplo de como se consegue retratar com mestria personagens que se tornam reais porque 茅 f谩cil a identifica莽茫o com as suas trag茅dias e sucessos.
Para mim foi particularmente surpreendente a evolu莽茫o do clima dos anos 60 londrino para a dura realidade africana retratada sem o preconceito t茫o disseminado do politicamente correcto.
June 19, 2019
The Sweetest Dream was my first novel by Doris Lessing 鈥� and though I am definitely will read more of her works in the future 鈥� I have quite uncomfortable feelings about this one. To begin with this is a novel written by a very tired woman. The level of fatality and deep frustration with human beings here is unbearably high. It feels like all characters in this book serve one goal only 鈥� to prove the point that our world is full of spoiled adults who once have been spoiled and ungrateful children brought up by emotionally crippled women with a severe savior complex. And all such women have left is just die when they reach a point of exhaustion, letting other women to continue on with neverending task. One more issue I have with this book is its some scrappy structure 鈥� at first we have all these tedious Franses鈥檚 tries to be the Mother Earth and have to watch how little good comes from them. Then we suddenly find ourselves in Africa 鈥� by the way it is my favorite section of the book despite of black and white tone which Lessing used here 鈥� and it feels like you ride on a bike downhill, unable to stop. In the end I felt tired exactly as Sylvia was, happy me not with the same outcome. Anyway this was a thought-provoking read and Doris Lessing is a goddess indeed.
June 30, 2022
I happened across the book as I鈥檓 reviewing an Estonian re-edition for Sirp, a cultural weekly. So, I read Lessing in translation which felt like a blasphemy, especially as her long-winding sentences are not easy to interpret into a language so much inherently ascetic in nature than English.
But the story itself 鈥� of London in the 60s and its disillusioned, dreamy young and the 80s they鈥檒l find themselves living in, some in newly-independent African countries 鈥� had many touchpoints with Estonia and its post-Soviet history.
The novel which is the third volume of Lessing鈥檚 autobiography beautifully depicts the intergenerational relationships between people who lived through both World Wars and those that spent their childhood in cushioned safety. A clash of generations, ideologies, and ethics is bound to explode. The book also called to mind Annie Ernaux鈥檚 The Years and Viivi Luik鈥檚 鈥淪eitmes rahukevad.鈥� I suppose I鈥檇 recommend Lessing鈥檚 book, but not over the two other novels.
But the story itself 鈥� of London in the 60s and its disillusioned, dreamy young and the 80s they鈥檒l find themselves living in, some in newly-independent African countries 鈥� had many touchpoints with Estonia and its post-Soviet history.
The novel which is the third volume of Lessing鈥檚 autobiography beautifully depicts the intergenerational relationships between people who lived through both World Wars and those that spent their childhood in cushioned safety. A clash of generations, ideologies, and ethics is bound to explode. The book also called to mind Annie Ernaux鈥檚 The Years and Viivi Luik鈥檚 鈥淪eitmes rahukevad.鈥� I suppose I鈥檇 recommend Lessing鈥檚 book, but not over the two other novels.
August 30, 2020
Esse 茅 um livro de mem贸rias que repassa o s茅culo passado, que foi aquele que a minha gera莽茫o teve sobre os ombros a responsabilidade de melhorar. De tornar o sonho mais doce como realidade. E a realidade se transformou em um grande 鈥榙onut鈥�.
A diferen莽a 茅 que contrariamente ao conselho de David Linch n贸s concentramos a aten莽茫o no buraco e n茫o no biscoito propriamente dito, e deu no que deu: demagogia, populismo, dom铆nio das rela莽玫es financeiras, e o amesquinhamento das na莽玫es.
Jamais houve tanto progresso e tanta mis茅rias casados ente si, em uma rela莽茫o doentia. A era da gan芒ncia est谩 em a莽茫o.
A diferen莽a 茅 que contrariamente ao conselho de David Linch n贸s concentramos a aten莽茫o no buraco e n茫o no biscoito propriamente dito, e deu no que deu: demagogia, populismo, dom铆nio das rela莽玫es financeiras, e o amesquinhamento das na莽玫es.
Jamais houve tanto progresso e tanta mis茅rias casados ente si, em uma rela莽茫o doentia. A era da gan芒ncia est谩 em a莽茫o.
February 22, 2022
The style of writing is something I never read before but once you get used to it it become very natural and fluent. So the plot is just the life of a disastrous family of England that takes under his roof the most stupid and weak people of England together with the most horrific and cruel shitheads of England. You can immagine the disaster, the hate Doris make you feel for the weak that don't react AT ALL (I wanted to slap them several times) but mostly the hate for the arrogant and terrible person that are Rose, Jhonny, Phyllida and Meriel.
November 6, 2022
This is a very readable novel, though there are many characters in it so it can be slightly hard to recall who is who. And there isn鈥檛 so much about communism in it, as in some of Lessing鈥檚 books.
Frances is the main character. She is an actress, writes articles and is also at one point an 鈥渁gony aunt鈥�.
She lives in Julia鈥檚 big house. Julia, a German who escaped Nazi Germany, is the mother of Frances鈥檚 ex-husband, Johnny, who is a fanatical communist, always trying to convert people, and who is thus extremely boring.
Frances has two sons, Andrew and Colin.
What is special about the house is that it is filled with youngsters, who come from goodness knows where. Frances makes nutritious meals for them. The youngsters mostly can鈥檛 live with their parents for some reason or another, some being neglected by them.
Julia has money and pays for some of he youngsters鈥� upkeep, if Frances does not.
One child in particular, Sylvia, who at the start goes by the name of Tilly because, when a litle girl, she couldn鈥檛 pronounce Sylvia properly, is particularly prominent.
Sylvia was looked after by Julia. She hardly ate anything until Andrew began to encourage her to do so.
There was a rather unpleasant girl called Rose.
Later, Sylvia becomes a doctor and goes to Africa to help at a so-called hospital. This is one of the most interesting parts of the book.
Rose becomes a journalist but is still nasty and only writes articles attacking people, including Sylvia and her hospital, though Sylvia is a wonderful doctor and saves many of the natives鈥� lives. The 鈥渉ospital鈥� has no beds, and patients, no matter how ill, have to lie outside, even when it rains.
I can highly recommend this book.
Frances is the main character. She is an actress, writes articles and is also at one point an 鈥渁gony aunt鈥�.
She lives in Julia鈥檚 big house. Julia, a German who escaped Nazi Germany, is the mother of Frances鈥檚 ex-husband, Johnny, who is a fanatical communist, always trying to convert people, and who is thus extremely boring.
Frances has two sons, Andrew and Colin.
What is special about the house is that it is filled with youngsters, who come from goodness knows where. Frances makes nutritious meals for them. The youngsters mostly can鈥檛 live with their parents for some reason or another, some being neglected by them.
Julia has money and pays for some of he youngsters鈥� upkeep, if Frances does not.
One child in particular, Sylvia, who at the start goes by the name of Tilly because, when a litle girl, she couldn鈥檛 pronounce Sylvia properly, is particularly prominent.
Sylvia was looked after by Julia. She hardly ate anything until Andrew began to encourage her to do so.
There was a rather unpleasant girl called Rose.
Later, Sylvia becomes a doctor and goes to Africa to help at a so-called hospital. This is one of the most interesting parts of the book.
Rose becomes a journalist but is still nasty and only writes articles attacking people, including Sylvia and her hospital, though Sylvia is a wonderful doctor and saves many of the natives鈥� lives. The 鈥渉ospital鈥� has no beds, and patients, no matter how ill, have to lie outside, even when it rains.
I can highly recommend this book.
April 5, 2022
Much of this book takes place in a three-story house, with a basement too, in London. This house belongs to julia, the matriarch of the family.
She was from germany, and she met her future husband philip, who was from england, before world war I. He went away to war, and then he came back, and they were married. They had a son named Jolyon.
Jolyon, or johnny, as he likes to call himself, was a communist, or at least he said he was. He met a young woman named Frances, and they had a love affair. He said he was going away to fight in the Spanish civil war.
In that week they married and Andrew was conceived, and that was the end of her good times,
"Now here she was, and it was a final capitulation:
Johnny had snapped at her, 鈥業 don鈥檛 think I鈥檝e managed to teach you anything, Frances, you are unteachable.鈥� 鈥榊es, I know, I鈥檓 stupid.鈥�
Johnny would never stay at home, but went traipsing around the world, supported by communist communities. She would stay at home, now with two children. Johnny would ask Julia to visit her. Julia would try to give her money, but Frances would not allow it. Julia:
鈥業 would say that you have more reality than you can cope with.鈥�
Frances eventually comes to Julia's house to live with her two sons, on the Middle floor, with Julia above her.
This book seems to be about, at first people living in that house, many of them just taking up space and being supported by Frances and julia.
There are some despicable characters in here. I don't know how the character Frances was able to tolerate, for example, Rose.
She's always cooking, and putting out great loads of food on a gigantic table.
Frances works at a newspaper, at first being an "aunt agnes," something like Dear Abby. Later on she starts writing articles about women's plight. She gets to know one of her work colleagues.
鈥楾his is our chief politico, Rupert Boland. He鈥檚 an egghead but he鈥檚 not a bad sort of person, even if he is a man.鈥�
As when I was in high school, and my contemporaries would talk about what they wanted to be when they were quote grown up, Many of the teenagers that stayed in Julia's house, had dreams of going off to different places, and doing unreal things. For example, one of the young men said he was going to East africa,
"Frances understood that there was no need to say anything as crass as, Have you got a passport? A visa? How are you going to pay for it? And you are only seventeen."
Rose, one of the despicable teenagers that took up space in the basement, claimed that Frances's son Andrew had made her pregnant. Frances had to play the parent for Rose, as she had to for many of the other teenagers, who stayed in Julia's house.
She signed Rose up for a class course in a college. She let Rose's parents know.
"But they would not pay for Rose鈥檚 board and keep. They allowed it to be understood that it was Andrew鈥檚 responsibility to pay for her. That meant Frances, in effect.
"Perhaps she could be asked to do something in return, like housework鈥揻or there were always problems with keeping the place clean, in spite of Julia鈥檚 Mrs Philby, who would never do much more than vacuum floors. 鈥楧on鈥檛 be silly,鈥� said Andrew. 鈥楥an you imagine Rose lifting a finger?鈥� "
Johnny is disillusioned by the Vietnam war, and the lies of the so-called communism, of the USSR.
" 鈥業t was all . . . lies and nonsense.鈥� She could hear the tears in his voice. 鈥榃hat a waste. All that effort . . . people killed for nothing. Good people. No one is going to tell me they weren鈥檛.鈥� A silence. 鈥業 don鈥檛 want to make a thing of it, but I did make such sacrifices for the Party.' "
Later on, Johnny gets married, and then leaves his second wife, and of course Frances is responsible for supporting her. Frances ends up getting together with her colleague from the newspaper, Rupert.
I really can't stand sex scenes, it makes me feel like throwing up. These are triggers for me, Because of my abuse...
"The sweet warm weight of a man sleeping in her arms, his mouth on her cheek, the tender heaviness of a man鈥檚 balls in her hand, the delicious slipperiness of. ."
The character from this book who I loved was Tilly, but that was just her nickname. Her real name was Sylvia.
When she first came to Julia's house, she was anorexic, and had extreme trauma from her mother's treatment of her. She was Johnny stepdaughter. When she said this, I communed with her character:
" 'But I must confess I鈥檇 be happy to spend my life lying on my bed and reading.鈥� "
I also like the character of Frances a lot. Except for when she was describing lying around in bed with Rupert:
"...a piece by Frances where she mocked the current fad for alien excitements like Yoga, and I-Ching, the Maharishi, Subud.
One of the young people who stayed at Frances and Julia's house, later turned out to be a minister in the country they called zimlia which was a thinly disguised Zimbabwe.
"They are all so privileged, they have everything, they have more than any of us ever had..."
These were the thoughts he had, when he came to stay in london, and began a student life there
"It鈥檚 not fair, it鈥檚 not right, why do you have so much and you take it all for granted. It was that which ached in him, hurt, stung: they had no idea at all of their good fortune."
It is hard, very, for the older ones, world-whipped, when they have to listen while the idealistic young demand explanations for the sadness of the world.
In the Eighties, at the behest of another ideological imperative, all the mental hospitals and asylums were closed, and their inmates turned out to sink or swim.
Julia: "If you were dead, Sylvia, then you鈥檇 not be missing much, you鈥檒l only end up like me, an old woman with my life behind me, dwindling into a mess of memories, that hurt."
鈥楧on鈥檛 you think it is strange that stupid people should have such power?鈥�
A piece of a poem of an author Julia liked:
"I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent ."
Frances: "Lord, just imagine, if there had been no Rupert she would have gone on in the same dull willed routine of duty, and without love, sex, intimacy."
This, though she has to support Rupert's ex-wife, and take in his two spoiled brat children.
And here we go again:
"Frances and Rupert lay side by side in the dark, her head on his right shoulder, his right hand on her right breast. Her hand lay on his inner thigh, her knuckles against his balls, a soft but self-respecting weight that was giving her confidence."
馃ぎ馃あ
I was a catholic, and actually going to school for part of the '60s, in a Catholic school, though I never knew anything about this:
"In the Sixties, the tumults of ideology that afflicted the world had taken a local shape in the Catholic Church, in a bubbling unrest that had attempted to dethrone the Virgin Mary. The Holy Mother was out, and with her went rosaries."
Andrew, Frances and Johnny's son, turns out to be one of those people that work in a world food organization, that take the money that people donate to famine, and spend the money on "conferences" in beautiful resorts.
He runs into Sylvia, where she's a doctor in a mission village in Zimbabwe.
"He knew he did not suffer from race prejudice. No, but it was class prejudice, and the two are often confused. What was Sylvia doing, letting herself go like this?"
Frances's other son, Colin, tells Sylvia this, when she makes a run back to London to buy supplies for the village. Sophie is one of the teenagers that camped out in frances's house. These characters just let the wind blow their lives around.
" 鈥楽ophie is pregnant,鈥� he said, 鈥榓nd so we are about to get married.鈥� "
And this is about Rupert's first wife, who Francis has to support and keep:
"She has always told Rupert that it is his duty to keep her, and she made him pay for her taking a degree in some rubbish or other, the higher criticism, I think. She has never earned a penny. And now she is trying to get a divorce where he keeps her in perpetuity."
Rupert and Frances...here we go with the triggers again:
"Let them mock who would, and they certainly did, but there was such a thing as happiness and here it was, here they were, both of them, contented, like cats in the sun."
Whites who got land dirt cheap when Zimbabwe was under the British rule, are starting to be attacked and run out, when zimbabe gets its independence:
"Besides, if the whites wanted land to have and to hold, with tidy fences and clear-cut boundaries, while the blacks鈥� attitude to land was that it was their mother and could not be individually owned, then there was also the question of cheap labour."
Sylvia has different eyes after she makes her quick run to London for supplies, and returns to her village mission
"What she saw down there, the assemblage of poor huts or sheds, was tolerable only if she did not think of London, or Julia鈥檚 house, with its solidity, its safety, its permanence, each room so full of things that had an exact purpose, serving a need among a multiplicity of needs, so that every day any person in it was supported as if by so many silent servitors with utensils, tools, appliances, gadgets, surfaces to sit on or to put things on鈥揳n intricacy of always multiplying things."
(2022's Ukraine):
"The Left in Europe [and EEUU] as usual concerning itself with events elsewhere: it had identified itself with the Soviet Union and as a result had done itself in."
Some more excerpts:
" 鈥楬ow would you fancy writing a piece about whether Proudhon鈥檚 鈥淎ll property is theft鈥� has been responsible for the corruption and collapse of modern society?' "
"once Sylvia had seen an old baboon sitting in it, a piece of grass between his lips, looking around him in a contemplative way, like a grandfather sitting out his days on a porch."
"She smiled to herself, the practised bitter twist of the lips of one who feeds on bitterness."
" 鈥榃hat interests me is how you see it. You are always surprised when there is injustice. But that is how things always are.鈥� "
" 鈥楾here鈥檚 something wrong.鈥� Rupert and Frances went down and into the sitting-room where on the sofa Sylvia was indeed dead asleep: she was dead."
Lord I hate writing reviews. I put little flags on pages where certain excerpts I feel a connection to. But I have no idea how to put those feelings into words. I wish I had the talent that my 欧宝娱乐 friend aPriL has.
Anyways, I was not as fond of this book of the authors, as I was of the previous books I've read of hers. Some of her books are astoundingly beautiful. This one was indeed a work of art, but I suppose I just didn't like the subject matter, so many privileged people and at the other end of the spectrum the utter poverty and hunger of the mission's village people in East Africa.
She was from germany, and she met her future husband philip, who was from england, before world war I. He went away to war, and then he came back, and they were married. They had a son named Jolyon.
Jolyon, or johnny, as he likes to call himself, was a communist, or at least he said he was. He met a young woman named Frances, and they had a love affair. He said he was going away to fight in the Spanish civil war.
In that week they married and Andrew was conceived, and that was the end of her good times,
"Now here she was, and it was a final capitulation:
Johnny had snapped at her, 鈥業 don鈥檛 think I鈥檝e managed to teach you anything, Frances, you are unteachable.鈥� 鈥榊es, I know, I鈥檓 stupid.鈥�
Johnny would never stay at home, but went traipsing around the world, supported by communist communities. She would stay at home, now with two children. Johnny would ask Julia to visit her. Julia would try to give her money, but Frances would not allow it. Julia:
鈥業 would say that you have more reality than you can cope with.鈥�
Frances eventually comes to Julia's house to live with her two sons, on the Middle floor, with Julia above her.
This book seems to be about, at first people living in that house, many of them just taking up space and being supported by Frances and julia.
There are some despicable characters in here. I don't know how the character Frances was able to tolerate, for example, Rose.
She's always cooking, and putting out great loads of food on a gigantic table.
Frances works at a newspaper, at first being an "aunt agnes," something like Dear Abby. Later on she starts writing articles about women's plight. She gets to know one of her work colleagues.
鈥楾his is our chief politico, Rupert Boland. He鈥檚 an egghead but he鈥檚 not a bad sort of person, even if he is a man.鈥�
As when I was in high school, and my contemporaries would talk about what they wanted to be when they were quote grown up, Many of the teenagers that stayed in Julia's house, had dreams of going off to different places, and doing unreal things. For example, one of the young men said he was going to East africa,
"Frances understood that there was no need to say anything as crass as, Have you got a passport? A visa? How are you going to pay for it? And you are only seventeen."
Rose, one of the despicable teenagers that took up space in the basement, claimed that Frances's son Andrew had made her pregnant. Frances had to play the parent for Rose, as she had to for many of the other teenagers, who stayed in Julia's house.
She signed Rose up for a class course in a college. She let Rose's parents know.
"But they would not pay for Rose鈥檚 board and keep. They allowed it to be understood that it was Andrew鈥檚 responsibility to pay for her. That meant Frances, in effect.
"Perhaps she could be asked to do something in return, like housework鈥揻or there were always problems with keeping the place clean, in spite of Julia鈥檚 Mrs Philby, who would never do much more than vacuum floors. 鈥楧on鈥檛 be silly,鈥� said Andrew. 鈥楥an you imagine Rose lifting a finger?鈥� "
Johnny is disillusioned by the Vietnam war, and the lies of the so-called communism, of the USSR.
" 鈥業t was all . . . lies and nonsense.鈥� She could hear the tears in his voice. 鈥榃hat a waste. All that effort . . . people killed for nothing. Good people. No one is going to tell me they weren鈥檛.鈥� A silence. 鈥業 don鈥檛 want to make a thing of it, but I did make such sacrifices for the Party.' "
Later on, Johnny gets married, and then leaves his second wife, and of course Frances is responsible for supporting her. Frances ends up getting together with her colleague from the newspaper, Rupert.
I really can't stand sex scenes, it makes me feel like throwing up. These are triggers for me, Because of my abuse...
"The sweet warm weight of a man sleeping in her arms, his mouth on her cheek, the tender heaviness of a man鈥檚 balls in her hand, the delicious slipperiness of. ."
The character from this book who I loved was Tilly, but that was just her nickname. Her real name was Sylvia.
When she first came to Julia's house, she was anorexic, and had extreme trauma from her mother's treatment of her. She was Johnny stepdaughter. When she said this, I communed with her character:
" 'But I must confess I鈥檇 be happy to spend my life lying on my bed and reading.鈥� "
I also like the character of Frances a lot. Except for when she was describing lying around in bed with Rupert:
"...a piece by Frances where she mocked the current fad for alien excitements like Yoga, and I-Ching, the Maharishi, Subud.
One of the young people who stayed at Frances and Julia's house, later turned out to be a minister in the country they called zimlia which was a thinly disguised Zimbabwe.
"They are all so privileged, they have everything, they have more than any of us ever had..."
These were the thoughts he had, when he came to stay in london, and began a student life there
"It鈥檚 not fair, it鈥檚 not right, why do you have so much and you take it all for granted. It was that which ached in him, hurt, stung: they had no idea at all of their good fortune."
It is hard, very, for the older ones, world-whipped, when they have to listen while the idealistic young demand explanations for the sadness of the world.
In the Eighties, at the behest of another ideological imperative, all the mental hospitals and asylums were closed, and their inmates turned out to sink or swim.
Julia: "If you were dead, Sylvia, then you鈥檇 not be missing much, you鈥檒l only end up like me, an old woman with my life behind me, dwindling into a mess of memories, that hurt."
鈥楧on鈥檛 you think it is strange that stupid people should have such power?鈥�
A piece of a poem of an author Julia liked:
"I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent ."
Frances: "Lord, just imagine, if there had been no Rupert she would have gone on in the same dull willed routine of duty, and without love, sex, intimacy."
This, though she has to support Rupert's ex-wife, and take in his two spoiled brat children.
And here we go again:
"Frances and Rupert lay side by side in the dark, her head on his right shoulder, his right hand on her right breast. Her hand lay on his inner thigh, her knuckles against his balls, a soft but self-respecting weight that was giving her confidence."
馃ぎ馃あ
I was a catholic, and actually going to school for part of the '60s, in a Catholic school, though I never knew anything about this:
"In the Sixties, the tumults of ideology that afflicted the world had taken a local shape in the Catholic Church, in a bubbling unrest that had attempted to dethrone the Virgin Mary. The Holy Mother was out, and with her went rosaries."
Andrew, Frances and Johnny's son, turns out to be one of those people that work in a world food organization, that take the money that people donate to famine, and spend the money on "conferences" in beautiful resorts.
He runs into Sylvia, where she's a doctor in a mission village in Zimbabwe.
"He knew he did not suffer from race prejudice. No, but it was class prejudice, and the two are often confused. What was Sylvia doing, letting herself go like this?"
Frances's other son, Colin, tells Sylvia this, when she makes a run back to London to buy supplies for the village. Sophie is one of the teenagers that camped out in frances's house. These characters just let the wind blow their lives around.
" 鈥楽ophie is pregnant,鈥� he said, 鈥榓nd so we are about to get married.鈥� "
And this is about Rupert's first wife, who Francis has to support and keep:
"She has always told Rupert that it is his duty to keep her, and she made him pay for her taking a degree in some rubbish or other, the higher criticism, I think. She has never earned a penny. And now she is trying to get a divorce where he keeps her in perpetuity."
Rupert and Frances...here we go with the triggers again:
"Let them mock who would, and they certainly did, but there was such a thing as happiness and here it was, here they were, both of them, contented, like cats in the sun."
Whites who got land dirt cheap when Zimbabwe was under the British rule, are starting to be attacked and run out, when zimbabe gets its independence:
"Besides, if the whites wanted land to have and to hold, with tidy fences and clear-cut boundaries, while the blacks鈥� attitude to land was that it was their mother and could not be individually owned, then there was also the question of cheap labour."
Sylvia has different eyes after she makes her quick run to London for supplies, and returns to her village mission
"What she saw down there, the assemblage of poor huts or sheds, was tolerable only if she did not think of London, or Julia鈥檚 house, with its solidity, its safety, its permanence, each room so full of things that had an exact purpose, serving a need among a multiplicity of needs, so that every day any person in it was supported as if by so many silent servitors with utensils, tools, appliances, gadgets, surfaces to sit on or to put things on鈥揳n intricacy of always multiplying things."
(2022's Ukraine):
"The Left in Europe [and EEUU] as usual concerning itself with events elsewhere: it had identified itself with the Soviet Union and as a result had done itself in."
Some more excerpts:
" 鈥楬ow would you fancy writing a piece about whether Proudhon鈥檚 鈥淎ll property is theft鈥� has been responsible for the corruption and collapse of modern society?' "
"once Sylvia had seen an old baboon sitting in it, a piece of grass between his lips, looking around him in a contemplative way, like a grandfather sitting out his days on a porch."
"She smiled to herself, the practised bitter twist of the lips of one who feeds on bitterness."
" 鈥榃hat interests me is how you see it. You are always surprised when there is injustice. But that is how things always are.鈥� "
" 鈥楾here鈥檚 something wrong.鈥� Rupert and Frances went down and into the sitting-room where on the sofa Sylvia was indeed dead asleep: she was dead."
Lord I hate writing reviews. I put little flags on pages where certain excerpts I feel a connection to. But I have no idea how to put those feelings into words. I wish I had the talent that my 欧宝娱乐 friend aPriL has.
Anyways, I was not as fond of this book of the authors, as I was of the previous books I've read of hers. Some of her books are astoundingly beautiful. This one was indeed a work of art, but I suppose I just didn't like the subject matter, so many privileged people and at the other end of the spectrum the utter poverty and hunger of the mission's village people in East Africa.
July 22, 2019
The story of a large extended London household in the Sixties, related as much by chance and need as family, and their encounters many years later.
Book Review: The Sweetest Dream was one of the last novels Doris Lessing wrote, and it seemed that here she was trying to publish as many ideas (including addressing various political issues) as possible. This book seems to be three novels awkwardly stuck together to make an uneasy whole. It's slow starting, taking many pages to develop a rationale for the story. Purportedly about the Sixties (can't have a book about the London Sixties that doesn't mention the Beatles), it seems to be more about showing that communists are poor husbands and worse fathers, that everyone is either inclined to give selflessly until they kill themselves or corrupt, and there's no hope for developing countries (pick your reason). The sweetest dream is the failed illusions of communism and the pipe-dreams of the Sixties (believing that "everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" - Voltaire would understand). The "first book" is about Frances, an earth mother who gives (to her own detriment) to an extended "family" who are mostly uncaring or undeserving egoists ("who suck and feed and demand"). She's a giving tree to lost and spoiled children. The most interesting and touching part is her relationship with her mother-in-law, Julia, a stickler for order and by-the-book. Opposites, they gradually, clumsily, come to understand one another. Frances and her ex-husband gather a number of people under the roof who will become movers and shakers on the world stage. The ex-husband, the appalling "Comrade Johnny," is supposedly a significant, international, communist organizer, but as portrayed here is a dud, zero charisma, unappealing and unattractive. How he supposedly accumulated followers was beyond me. The second book is the extended "family" grown up, off to shape and mold the world. All of them far from the children they once were, now corrupt, self-serving, and oblivious to the needs and cares of others, even those they claim to love. This was the least interesting and believable part of The Sweetest Dream. The third book is the story of Sylvia, once a child in the household who now a doctor goes off to southern Africa to minister to those hit by the AIDS epidemic. These powerfully evocative scenes show the beginnings of the disaster and the difficulty in getting the victims to understand or the powers-that-be to act. The writing here was the strongest, and saddest, in the book. Once again, everyone is either a savior or a snake. In its mixture of history and the personal, The Sweetest Dream reminds me of Ali Smith or Nadine Gordimer (also a Nobel laureate), but without the clear intent of either. This was my first Doris Lessing and considering she's the author of The Golden Notebook, either I'm missing a whole lot or it was a late-career miss. Even though this was not a necessary read for me, I think she still has a number of books on my must-read list. [2陆鈽匽
Book Review: The Sweetest Dream was one of the last novels Doris Lessing wrote, and it seemed that here she was trying to publish as many ideas (including addressing various political issues) as possible. This book seems to be three novels awkwardly stuck together to make an uneasy whole. It's slow starting, taking many pages to develop a rationale for the story. Purportedly about the Sixties (can't have a book about the London Sixties that doesn't mention the Beatles), it seems to be more about showing that communists are poor husbands and worse fathers, that everyone is either inclined to give selflessly until they kill themselves or corrupt, and there's no hope for developing countries (pick your reason). The sweetest dream is the failed illusions of communism and the pipe-dreams of the Sixties (believing that "everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" - Voltaire would understand). The "first book" is about Frances, an earth mother who gives (to her own detriment) to an extended "family" who are mostly uncaring or undeserving egoists ("who suck and feed and demand"). She's a giving tree to lost and spoiled children. The most interesting and touching part is her relationship with her mother-in-law, Julia, a stickler for order and by-the-book. Opposites, they gradually, clumsily, come to understand one another. Frances and her ex-husband gather a number of people under the roof who will become movers and shakers on the world stage. The ex-husband, the appalling "Comrade Johnny," is supposedly a significant, international, communist organizer, but as portrayed here is a dud, zero charisma, unappealing and unattractive. How he supposedly accumulated followers was beyond me. The second book is the extended "family" grown up, off to shape and mold the world. All of them far from the children they once were, now corrupt, self-serving, and oblivious to the needs and cares of others, even those they claim to love. This was the least interesting and believable part of The Sweetest Dream. The third book is the story of Sylvia, once a child in the household who now a doctor goes off to southern Africa to minister to those hit by the AIDS epidemic. These powerfully evocative scenes show the beginnings of the disaster and the difficulty in getting the victims to understand or the powers-that-be to act. The writing here was the strongest, and saddest, in the book. Once again, everyone is either a savior or a snake. In its mixture of history and the personal, The Sweetest Dream reminds me of Ali Smith or Nadine Gordimer (also a Nobel laureate), but without the clear intent of either. This was my first Doris Lessing and considering she's the author of The Golden Notebook, either I'm missing a whole lot or it was a late-career miss. Even though this was not a necessary read for me, I think she still has a number of books on my must-read list. [2陆鈽匽
June 19, 2019
Ich war etwas unschl眉ssig, ob ich 4 oder 5 Sterne geben soll, aber in den allermeisten Passagen war das Buch f眉r mich sehr 眉berzeugend.
Die Geschichte beginnt in den 60er Jahren und wird oft als Darstellung der 60er beschrieben, dabei geht sie weit dar眉ber hinaus. Ich selbst war in dieser Zeit Kind in der DDR, also in ganz anderen Verh盲ltnissen als sie in London herrschten, aber trotzdem kam mir vieles sehr bekannt vor. Gerade Typen wie der Genosse Johnny, der Erfolg damit hatte, Phrasen mit einem 眉berzeugenden Charme und Vorbildfunktion darzustellen, aber sein Leben selbst nicht ordnen konnte, kamen mir sehr bekannt vor. Oh, diese Spr眉che "Wer nicht f眉r uns ist, der ist gegen uns." oder "Der Kampf gegen den Imperialismus duldet keinen Aufschub." wecken unangenehme Erinnerungen. Alle Figuren wurden von der Autorin brilliant beobachtet, manche Darstellung war vielleicht etwas einseitig, aber auch nicht anders zu machen, um sich nicht v枚llig in Nebenfiguren zu verzetteln. Beim Genossen Johnny gefiel mir auch die Darstellung der Ursache seines Hasses, was mir bei der schrecklichen Rose Trimble, die der Neid v枚llig im Griff hatte, nicht so ganz klar wurde.
Der gro脽e Tisch im Hause Lennox ist ein sch枚nes Symbol nicht nur der 60er. Ende der 70er begegnete ich erstmals solchen Familien, in denen es immer G盲ste gab, die sich um den gro脽en K眉chentisch versammelten und es entstand der Wunsch, diese Lebensart selbst fortzusetzen. In kleinerem Ma脽stab gelang dies auch, daher habe ich diese Szenen am Tisch der Familie Lennox sehr geliebt.
Umso erstaunter war ich, als ich mich pl枚tzlich in Afrika wiederfand und das Buch ein ganz anderes Thema er枚ffnete. Es passt nat眉rlich zur Lebensgeschichte der Autorin und sie schafft es am Schluss vollkommen, die Themen zu verbinden. In mancher Hinsicht war das Buch ein Augen枚ffner, obwohl ich vieles ahnte oder wusste, was so im Hintergrund meines vom Kartoffeln sammeln ersparten Solidarit盲tsgeldes passierte.
Es gibt eine Szene im Buch, die an der Krankenhausruine in Kwadere spielt (ausl盲ndische Geldgeber spendeten f眉r ein Krankenhaus, das Geld versickerte in dunklen Kan盲len, zur眉ck blieb eine Ruine mit noch verpackten Einrichtungsgegenst盲nden), die bei mir ein ganz starkes D茅j脿-vu hervorriefen. Diese Szene hatte ich in ganz 盲hnlicher Art schon einmal in einem anderen Buch gelesen. Kann das sein? Wei脽 jemand etwas dr眉ber?
Sehr angenehm war der Erz盲hlstil, der nicht experimentell, sondern leicht verst盲ndlich und doch bereits mit kleinen Passagen sehr treffend war. Um das Verh盲ltnis von Sylvias Mutter zu ihrer Tochter zu schildern, finde ich eine Szene z. B. besonders pr盲gnant. Sylvia kommt nach Jahren in Afrika zur Mutter, die sie mit einer spitzen Bemerkung begr眉脽t, sie nicht hinein bittet, keine Fragen zu all den Jahren stellt, sondern nur sagt: "Du siehst ja v枚llig ausgetrocknet aus, benutzt du keine Creme?"
Es g盲be viele solcher Beispiele, von denen ich dachte: ja, genau solche Typen kenne ich auch. Dabei empfand ich das Buch gar nicht so sehr als feministisch, wie es beschrieben war. Klar, es gibt starke Frauen als Protagonistinnen, aber genauso sympathische M盲nner, unsympathische Frauen - wie es im Leben eben so ist. F眉r mich war das wichtigste Thema die 脺bernahme von Verantwortung, zun盲chst f眉r das eigene Leben, dann f眉r Familie und Mitmenschen. Im Gegensatz dazu stand die st盲ndige Suche der Schuld bei anderen (Reichen oder vermutlich Reichen, Intellektuellen, Faschisten, Wei脽en).
Alles insgesamt hat das Buch zu einem gro脽en Leseerlebnis werden lassen, das ich gerade f眉r alle, die diese Zeit kennen, nur empfehlen kann.
Die Geschichte beginnt in den 60er Jahren und wird oft als Darstellung der 60er beschrieben, dabei geht sie weit dar眉ber hinaus. Ich selbst war in dieser Zeit Kind in der DDR, also in ganz anderen Verh盲ltnissen als sie in London herrschten, aber trotzdem kam mir vieles sehr bekannt vor. Gerade Typen wie der Genosse Johnny, der Erfolg damit hatte, Phrasen mit einem 眉berzeugenden Charme und Vorbildfunktion darzustellen, aber sein Leben selbst nicht ordnen konnte, kamen mir sehr bekannt vor. Oh, diese Spr眉che "Wer nicht f眉r uns ist, der ist gegen uns." oder "Der Kampf gegen den Imperialismus duldet keinen Aufschub." wecken unangenehme Erinnerungen. Alle Figuren wurden von der Autorin brilliant beobachtet, manche Darstellung war vielleicht etwas einseitig, aber auch nicht anders zu machen, um sich nicht v枚llig in Nebenfiguren zu verzetteln. Beim Genossen Johnny gefiel mir auch die Darstellung der Ursache seines Hasses, was mir bei der schrecklichen Rose Trimble, die der Neid v枚llig im Griff hatte, nicht so ganz klar wurde.
Der gro脽e Tisch im Hause Lennox ist ein sch枚nes Symbol nicht nur der 60er. Ende der 70er begegnete ich erstmals solchen Familien, in denen es immer G盲ste gab, die sich um den gro脽en K眉chentisch versammelten und es entstand der Wunsch, diese Lebensart selbst fortzusetzen. In kleinerem Ma脽stab gelang dies auch, daher habe ich diese Szenen am Tisch der Familie Lennox sehr geliebt.
Umso erstaunter war ich, als ich mich pl枚tzlich in Afrika wiederfand und das Buch ein ganz anderes Thema er枚ffnete. Es passt nat眉rlich zur Lebensgeschichte der Autorin und sie schafft es am Schluss vollkommen, die Themen zu verbinden. In mancher Hinsicht war das Buch ein Augen枚ffner, obwohl ich vieles ahnte oder wusste, was so im Hintergrund meines vom Kartoffeln sammeln ersparten Solidarit盲tsgeldes passierte.
Es gibt eine Szene im Buch, die an der Krankenhausruine in Kwadere spielt (ausl盲ndische Geldgeber spendeten f眉r ein Krankenhaus, das Geld versickerte in dunklen Kan盲len, zur眉ck blieb eine Ruine mit noch verpackten Einrichtungsgegenst盲nden), die bei mir ein ganz starkes D茅j脿-vu hervorriefen. Diese Szene hatte ich in ganz 盲hnlicher Art schon einmal in einem anderen Buch gelesen. Kann das sein? Wei脽 jemand etwas dr眉ber?
Sehr angenehm war der Erz盲hlstil, der nicht experimentell, sondern leicht verst盲ndlich und doch bereits mit kleinen Passagen sehr treffend war. Um das Verh盲ltnis von Sylvias Mutter zu ihrer Tochter zu schildern, finde ich eine Szene z. B. besonders pr盲gnant. Sylvia kommt nach Jahren in Afrika zur Mutter, die sie mit einer spitzen Bemerkung begr眉脽t, sie nicht hinein bittet, keine Fragen zu all den Jahren stellt, sondern nur sagt: "Du siehst ja v枚llig ausgetrocknet aus, benutzt du keine Creme?"
Es g盲be viele solcher Beispiele, von denen ich dachte: ja, genau solche Typen kenne ich auch. Dabei empfand ich das Buch gar nicht so sehr als feministisch, wie es beschrieben war. Klar, es gibt starke Frauen als Protagonistinnen, aber genauso sympathische M盲nner, unsympathische Frauen - wie es im Leben eben so ist. F眉r mich war das wichtigste Thema die 脺bernahme von Verantwortung, zun盲chst f眉r das eigene Leben, dann f眉r Familie und Mitmenschen. Im Gegensatz dazu stand die st盲ndige Suche der Schuld bei anderen (Reichen oder vermutlich Reichen, Intellektuellen, Faschisten, Wei脽en).
Alles insgesamt hat das Buch zu einem gro脽en Leseerlebnis werden lassen, das ich gerade f眉r alle, die diese Zeit kennen, nur empfehlen kann.
February 4, 2015
I gave up; I couldn't finish this long, badly written book. I can hardly believe that this blatant propaganda novel is by Doris Lessing. It didn't surprise me, after reading her autobiography, that her politics have moved far to the right; but what did surprise me was the total lack of subtlety, of nuance, and to be frank, the poor writing.
Of course, there were touches of the old Lessing, passages where she shows a real understanding of psychology; but as soon as I began getting interested in the problems of the real characters, the cardboard villain "Comrade Johnny" would show up and she flips back into propaganda mode.
The characterization is not only one-dimensional, but actually dishonest. Lessing, having been in and around the British CP and the larger left for so long, certainly knows that someone like Johnny who welshes on child support and encourages kids to drink and shoplift would not be a "star"; he'd be bounced out on his ear from any left party I know of. Anyone who has been around any traditional left party knows they are strict to the point of paranoia about drugs, underage drinking, or any minor infraction of even the most seldom-enforced laws, which might legitimize police attention to the organization, and that they make a point of supporting women's issues.
It is not only with regard to "Communists" that this novel degenerates into simplistic propaganda; her view of the younger generation, whether political or not, is made up of the worst stereotypes: all shoplifters, all dirty, all lazy, one character goes to a rally against the Vietnam War and faints because all the protesters stink so badly.
And this from an author who wrote so well about the anti-nuclear protest marches in the last volume of the "Children of Violence" series.
The propaganda is not the only fault of the novel; there are far too many characters, and they are introduced in batches. As soon as I would get them sorted out and begin to identify their individual characters and problems, a new batch is introduced. The descriptions of the other characters, though better than those of the "comrades", is also not up to Lessing's previous standards, and there are absurdities like the anorexic girl who is suddenly "cured" by having attention paid to her -- if it were only so easy.
I would say this was a falling off because of old age, if she hadn't written General Dann and Mara's Daughter three years later, which shows little falling off from her best books. I can only conclude that it is because she is writing a "thesis piece", totally uncharacteristic for her and which she always professes to dislike, and that she has a psychological problem with writing about political subjects now, possibly because she feels some sort of guilt about her about-face and needs to convince herself that the left was all a "sweet", or rather bitter, dream.
The first Lessing novel that I have ever disliked, and I disliked it immensely.
Of course, there were touches of the old Lessing, passages where she shows a real understanding of psychology; but as soon as I began getting interested in the problems of the real characters, the cardboard villain "Comrade Johnny" would show up and she flips back into propaganda mode.
The characterization is not only one-dimensional, but actually dishonest. Lessing, having been in and around the British CP and the larger left for so long, certainly knows that someone like Johnny who welshes on child support and encourages kids to drink and shoplift would not be a "star"; he'd be bounced out on his ear from any left party I know of. Anyone who has been around any traditional left party knows they are strict to the point of paranoia about drugs, underage drinking, or any minor infraction of even the most seldom-enforced laws, which might legitimize police attention to the organization, and that they make a point of supporting women's issues.
It is not only with regard to "Communists" that this novel degenerates into simplistic propaganda; her view of the younger generation, whether political or not, is made up of the worst stereotypes: all shoplifters, all dirty, all lazy, one character goes to a rally against the Vietnam War and faints because all the protesters stink so badly.
And this from an author who wrote so well about the anti-nuclear protest marches in the last volume of the "Children of Violence" series.
The propaganda is not the only fault of the novel; there are far too many characters, and they are introduced in batches. As soon as I would get them sorted out and begin to identify their individual characters and problems, a new batch is introduced. The descriptions of the other characters, though better than those of the "comrades", is also not up to Lessing's previous standards, and there are absurdities like the anorexic girl who is suddenly "cured" by having attention paid to her -- if it were only so easy.
I would say this was a falling off because of old age, if she hadn't written General Dann and Mara's Daughter three years later, which shows little falling off from her best books. I can only conclude that it is because she is writing a "thesis piece", totally uncharacteristic for her and which she always professes to dislike, and that she has a psychological problem with writing about political subjects now, possibly because she feels some sort of guilt about her about-face and needs to convince herself that the left was all a "sweet", or rather bitter, dream.
The first Lessing novel that I have ever disliked, and I disliked it immensely.
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