The opening book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's 'Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. When we first meet Martha Quest, she is a girl of fifteen living with her parents on a poor African farm. She is eager for life and resentful of the deadening narrowness of home, and escapes to take a job as a typist in the local capital. Here, in the 'big city', she encounters the real life she was so eager to know and understand. As a picture of colonial life, 'Martha Quest' succeeds by the depth of its realism alone; but always at its centre is Martha, a sympathetic figure drawn with unrelenting objectivity. Martha's Africa is Doris Lessing's Africa: the restrictive life of the farm; the atmosphere of racial fear and antagonism; the superficial sophistication of the city. And both Martha and Lessing are Children of Violence: the generation that was born of one world war and came of age in another, whose abrasive relationships with their parents, with one another, and with society are laid bare brilliantly by a writer who understands them better than any other.
Deti násilia Séria
Táto séria sleduje dospievanie a hľadanie identity mladej ženy v búrlivej polovici 20. storočia. Odohráva sa v prostredí Južnej Rodézie a neskôr Londýna, kde sa hlavná hrdinka Martha Questová vyrovnáva so spoločenskými konvenciami aj osobnými dilemami. Autorka majstrovsky prepája osobný príbeh so širšími politickými a sociálnymi témami, ako je kolonializmus, feminizmus a hľadanie zmyslu života. Ide o hlboko introspektívne a intelektuálne dielo, ktoré skúma zložitosť ľudskej skúsenosti a túžbu po slobode.
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