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Histoires Africaines Réunies de Doris Lessing Séries

Cette collection offre une exploration profonde de l'enfance et de l'adolescence sur le continent africain, plongeant dans les complexités du colonialisme et des rencontres culturelles. Les récits capturent vivement la beauté brute du paysage africain, qui agit comme une force puissante façonnant à la fois les personnages et leurs destins. Elle examine de manière réfléchie les thèmes de l'identité, de l'aliénation et de la recherche de sens dans un environnement à la fois majestueux et impitoyable.

The Sun Between Their Feet
Collected African Stories. This was the Old Chief's Country

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  1. Collected African Stories. This was the Old Chief's Country

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    All Doris Lessing's short novels and stories are now collected into two volumes, This Was The Old Chef's Country and The Sun Between Their Feet. This volume contains all the stories from the original book entitled This Was The Old Chief's Country and three of the short novels from Five, the book which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1954.'I believe,' writes Doris Lessing, "that the chief gift from Africa to writers, white and black, is the continent itself, its presence which for some people is like a old fever, latent always in their blood; or it like an old wounded throbbing in the bones as the air changes. That is not a place to visit unless one chooses to be an exile ever afterwards from an inexplicable majestic silence lying just over the border of memory or of thought. Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.'In thisThe Old Chief MshlangaA Sunrise on the VeldNo Witchcraft for SaleThe Second HutThe NuisanceThe De Wets Come to Kloof GrangeLittle TembiOld John's Place'Leopard' GeorgeWinter in JulyA Home for the Highland CattleEldoradoThe AntheapIncludes the Preface for the 1964 Collection and a new Preface for the 1973 Collection. All of these stories appeared in African Stories, 1963.

    Collected African Stories. This was the Old Chief's Country1
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  2. The Sun Between Their Feet

    Collected African Stories

    • 331pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    This much-acclaimed collection of stories vividly evokes both the grandeur of Africa, the glare of its sun and the wide open space, as well as the great, irresolvable tensions between whites and blacks. Tales of poor white farmers and their lonely wives, of storm air thick with locusts, of ants and pomegranate trees, black servants and the year of hunger in a native village - all combine to present a powerful image of a continent which seems incorruptible in spite of the people who plough, mine and plunder it to make their living. In Doris Lessing's own words, 'Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.'

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