Doris Lessing (1919-2013), im heutigen Iran geboren und auf einer Farm in Südrhodesien (Simbabwe) aufgewachsen, lebte seit 1949 in England. 1950 veröffentlichte sie dort ihren ersten Roman und kam 1953 mit „Eine afrikanische Tragödie“ zu Weltruhm. In Deutschland hatte sie ihren großen Durchbruch 1978 mit der Veröffentlichung von „Das goldene Notizbuch“, das seitdem zu ihrem Hauptwerk gezählt wird. Heute ist Doris Lessing eine der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller der Gegenwart, ihr umfangreiches Werk umfasst Lyrik, Prosa und autobiographische Schriften. Im Oktober 2007 wurde sie mit dem Literaturnobelpreis ausgezeichnet.
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Doris Lessing: Shikasta
“Più e più volte, un trauma o una sollecitazione nell’equilibrio davvero precario di questo pianeta hanno provocato un incidente, e Shikasta è stata virtualmente denudata della vita. Si è riempita a …
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Doris Lessing: Una donna armata – Esperimenti siriani
Terzo romanzo del ciclo Canopus in Argos, Esperimenti siriani continua a raccontare la storia dell’evoluzione di Shikasta, la Terra, e dell’umanità tenuta sotto scacco da due civiltà extraterrestri …
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Doris Lessing: CLEFT EPUB ED EB
Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men.An …
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Doris Lessing: Alfred and Emily
Doris Lessing’s first book after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature revisits her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents led.’I think my father“s …
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Doris Lessing: Time Bites
Assembled here for the first time in book form are the very best occasional writings from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.A selection of the very best of Doris Lessing’s essays: articles …
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Doris Lessing: To Room Nineteen
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a collection of some of her finest short stories.For more than four decades, Doris Lessing’s work has observed the passion and confusion of human …
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Doris Lessing: SWEETEST DREAM EPUB ED EB
Nobel Prize for Literature winner Doris Lessing tackles the 1960s and their legacy head-on in one of her most involving, personal, political novels.It’s the morning of the 1960s and it’s suppertime …
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Doris Lessing: Golden Notebook
The landmark novel of the Sixties – a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal.In 1950s London, novelist Anna …
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Doris Lessing: BEN, IN WORLD EPUB ED EB
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the sequel to one of her most celebrated novels, ‘The Fifth Child’.‘The Fifth Child’, Doris Lessing’s 1988 novel, made a powerful impact …
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Doris Lessing: Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man …
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Doris Lessing: Fifth Child
A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.’Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children …
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Doris Lessing: Diaries of Jane Somers
As resonant with social and political themes as Lessing s masterpiece The Golden Notebook , The Diaries of Jane Somers sees the author returns to the realism of her early fiction with the wisdom and …
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Doris Lessing: In Pursuit of the English
By turns, an unsparing and joyous account of life in a postwar London rooming house by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. In 1949, Doris Lessing left her native Southern …
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Doris Lessing: Good Terrorist
A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era and winner of the Nobel Prize for Fiction.In a London squat a band of …
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Doris Lessing: On Cats
A collection of charming and celebrated writings about cats, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.Doris Lessing’s love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became …
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Doris Lessing: Sirian Experiments
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the third instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‚Canopus in Argos: Archives‘.Ambien II is one of the Five – the highest level …
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Doris Lessing: Grandmothers
Four novellas by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, that once again show her to be unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition.The title story, ‚The …
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Doris Lessing: Summer Before the Dark
The story of a middle-aged woman’s search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.Her four children have flown, her husband is otherwise occupied, and after twenty …
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Doris Lessing: Under My Skin
The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of ‚The Grass is Singing‘ and ‚The Golden Notebook‘, and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.Winner of the James Tait Black …
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Doris Lessing: GRASS IS SINGING EPUB ED EB
The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid.Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of …
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Doris Lessing: LOVE, AGAIN EPUB ED EB
A fierce, compelling account of the nature and origins of love from Doris Lessing, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century and winner of the Nobel Pize for Literature 2007.Sarah …
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Doris Lessing: Temptation of Jack Orkney
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the second volume of her collected short stories.Lessing is unrivalled in her ability to capture the complexities of relationships, and …
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Doris Lessing: Making of the Representative for Planet 8
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the fourth instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‚Canopus in Argos: Archives‘.The handsome, intelligent people of Planet 8 of the Canopean …
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Doris Lessing: WALKING IN SHADE EPUB ED N EB
The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.‘Walking in the Shade’ begins in 1949, as Doris Lessing arrives in London with nothing but her young …
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Doris Lessing: Mara and Dann
A visionary novel from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.It is sooner than you might think. And the Earth’s climate is much changed – it’s colder than ever before in the north, …
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Doris Lessing: STORY OF GENERAL DANN MA EB
A fascinating novel of love and ecology from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.Doris Lessing returns to the world of visionary fiction, first visited in her Canopus in Argos quintet of …
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Doris Lessing: Martha Quest
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 …
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Doris Lessing: Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 and 5
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the second instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‚Canopus in Argos: Archives‘.This is the story of the kindly Queen of Zone …
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Doris Lessing: AFRICAN LAUGHTER EPUB ED N EB
Writing inspired by four visits to Zimbabwe, her childhood home, from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing.In the 1980s and early 1990s, Doris Lessing made several visits …
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Doris Lessing: THIS WAS OLD CHIEFS COUNTR EB
The first volume of Doris Lessing’s ‘Collected African Stories’, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.‘It can be said of all white-dominated Africa that it was – and …
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Doris Lessing: Sun Between Their Feet
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s ‚Collected African Stories‘, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.’As for these stories – when I write one, it is as if I open a …
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Doris Lessing: Proper Marriage
The second 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.’A …
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Doris Lessing: LONDON OBSERVED EPUB ED NO EB
Across eighteen short stories, Lessing dissects London and its inhabitants with the power for truth and compassion to be expected of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.“During that first year in …
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Doris Lessing: Memoirs of a Survivor
A compelling vision of a disorienting and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed …
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Doris Lessing: Shikasta
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‚Canopus in Argos: Archives‘.The story of the final days of our planet is told …
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Doris Lessing: SENTIMENTAL AGENTS VOLYEN EB
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the fifth and final instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.‘The Sentimental Agents …’ is set in the …
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Doris Lessing: RIPPLE FROM STORM EPUB ED EB
The third book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.‘“The …
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Doris Lessing: Landlocked
The fourth 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.In …
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Doris Lessing: Four-Gated City
The fifth and final book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‚Children of Violence‘ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear …
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Doris Lessing: PLAY WITH A TIGER EPUB ED EB
Three acclaimed works for the stage by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Written from 1950s to the 1970s, the three plays collected here reflect the social and political …
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Doris Lessing: Going Home
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a compelling account of her return to the land in which she grew up.In 1956, some seven years after departed for England, Doris Lessing returned …
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Doris Lessing: PUTTING QUESTIONS DIFFEREN EB
A collection of interviews with the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature that serves as an invaluable companion to her work.Doris Lessing is one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth …
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Doris Lessing: Small Personal Voice
An essential and definitive collection of the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s finest essays, reviews, reminiscences and interviews from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.’The novelist talks as an …
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Doris Lessing: THROUGH THE TUNNEL EB
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a young boy’s coming of age.While on holiday with his mother, a young boy sees a group of older children jumping …
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Doris Lessing: OLD CHIEF MSHLANGA EPUB ED EB
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a young girl’s experience of growing up in an unnamed African country.A young white girl, growing up on her …
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Doris Lessing: DAY STALIN DIED EPUB ED EB
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a young woman’s attempts to juggle her political beliefs with everyday life.On the day that the newspapers report …
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Doris Lessing: REPORT ON THREATENED CITY EB
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a distinctive science fiction short story.Unknown observers send reports on a city that is threatened with destruction. They gather …
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Doris Lessing: Old Woman and Her Cat
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing, a short story about a woman’s gradual drift outside the limits of society.An old woman, with gipsy blood, begins to find the …
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Doris Lessing: WINTER IN JULY EB
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007, Doris Lessing grew up in Africa – and returns to that troubled, misunderstood continent in this searing collection of short stories.‘I believe that the …
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Doris Lessing: Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
The companion to a series of lectures given by Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, in which she addresses some of the most important questions facing us today.’This is a time when it …
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Doris Lessing: Doris Lessing Three-Book Edition
This collection brings together three of Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing s most acclaimed novels. Her first novel, The Grass is Singing, is the story of Mary, a new wife, lonely and trapped in the …
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Doris Lessing: Love Again
"She has revealed that brilliant kernel at the heart of it all that we recognize as the truth."Francine Prose, Washington Post Book World Love, Again tells the story of a 65-year-old woman …
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Doris Lessing: Alfred and Emily
I think my father’s rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents‘ emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done …
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Doris Lessing: Cleft
From Doris Lessing, "one of the most important writers of the past hundred years" (Times of London), comes a brilliant, darkly provocative alternative history of humankind’s beginnings.In …
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Doris Lessing: Story of General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog
Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the past 100 years, a shrewd visionary. . . . Her new, short, haunting novel . . . succors us with . . . unforgettable visual images. We shiver …
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Doris Lessing: African Laughter
A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country." New York Times Book …
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Doris Lessing: Time Bites
A generous and pleasurable collection. . . . Vibrant and illuminating, with quotable lines on every page. . . . [Lessing is] a superb essayist: lucid, wise, knowledgeable, and witty. Booklist In this …
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Doris Lessing: Ben, In the World
Far from resting on her laurels, Lessing goes from strength to strength. Ben’s half-human ignorance, paranoia, and rage are magnificently imagined and vividly present on every page. The condition of …
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Doris Lessing: On Cats
Doris Lessing’s love affair with cats began at a young age, when she became intrigued with the semiferal creatures on the African farm where she grew up. Her fascination with the handsome, …
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Doris Lessing: Going Home
"Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. Buta country also belongs to those who feel at home in it. Perhaps it may be that love of Africa the country will be …
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Doris Lessing: Martha Quest
"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way. And it seemed to me that was the most …
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Doris Lessing: Landlocked
"Doris Lessing is the Cassandra of the documentary novel…crying for something harshly denied to our age: a longing for magic, for the irrational. Her concern for life, her independence of …
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Doris Lessing: In Pursuit of the English
"One of the most authentic books ever written about the English….Funny, touching and so real that the smell and taste of London seem to rise from its pages."San Francisco Chronicle In …
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Doris Lessing: Real Thing
"Doris Lessing has a powerful voice and a particular one. It speaks in anger at the distortion of personal relations ion a unsound society, but speaks it with a wit that manages to be both …
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Doris Lessing: Ripple From the Storm
Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the Children of Violence series, has been acclaimed as one of the greatest fictional creations in the English language. In a Ripple from the Storm, Doris Lessing …
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Doris Lessing: Proper Marriage
An unconventional woman trapped in a conventional marriage, Martha Quest struggles to maintain her dignity and her sanity through the misunderstandings, frustrations, infidelities, and degrading …
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Doris Lessing: Four-Gated City
"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way, and it seemed to me that was the most …
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Doris Lessing: Grass Is Singing
"There is passion here, a piercing accuracy, a rare sensitivity and power. . . . One can only marvel." New York Times Set in Southern Rhodesia under white rule, Doris Lessing’s first novel …
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Doris Lessing: Golden Notebook
"The Golden Notebookis Doris Lessing’s most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women." New York Times Book Review Anna is a writer, …
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Doris Lessing: Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
The Nobel Prize winner reflects on living "in a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures."In this perceptive collection of …
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Doris Lessing: Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and …
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Doris Lessing: Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher
Ancient tradition suggests that this world-weary lament is the work of Solomon in old age. Casting its eye over the transient nature of life, the book questions the striving for wisdom and the truth, …
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Ramsay Wood: "Kalila y Dimna" y otras fa!bulas del "Panchatantra"
El ciclo de fa!bulas de animales del "Panchatantra", compilado en sa!nscrito hace casi dos mil aa Aos, rea Ane los relatos hinda Aes ma!s difundidos a lo largo de los siglos por todo el …
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Olive Schreiner: Die Geschichte einer afrikanischen Farm
Ein bewegendes Meisterwerk über weibliche Emanzipation und Selbstbestimmung in der kolonialen Männerwelt
«The Story of an African Farm» gilt als das südafrikanische «Wuthering Heights». Der autob …
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Tarjei Vesaas: Das Eis-Schloss
Tarjei Vesaas (1897–1970) schuf mit ‚Das Eis-Schloss‘ einen dichten Roman, der sich unvergesslich ins Gedächtnis brennt. Darin erzählt er die Geschichte von zwei elfjährigen Mädchen, Siss und Unn. …
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The Paris Review: Zwölf Zimmer für sich allein
Dorothy Parker lästert über Carson Mc Cullers und klagt über die vielen miesen Brotjobs zu Beginn ihrer Laufbahn, Elena Ferrante spricht über die Gedankensplitter, die am Anfang ihrer Texte stehen, …
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Doris Lessing: Das Leben meiner Mutter
Es ist die Geschichte einer gegenseitigen Verletzung, die Doris Lessing in diesen Erinnerungen aufgezeichnet hat, nüchtern und konkret, ohne in den Tonfall einer Abrechnung zu verfallen: »Ich …
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