Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses--master and slave--are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa.</P>
The Grass Is Singing blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate.</P>
柏杨说过,“当贫穷从前门进来的时候,爱情就会从后门溜走了”。这句话虽然不能完全概括Mary的悲剧,但一切是从贫穷开始的。之所以莱辛和其他女性作家不一样,就是因为她描绘这出悲剧的时候,不是单单归结到女性的弱势,家庭的坎坷,种族的冲突上,她用自己精准的力量,...
評分文笔一般。纳博科夫记得是在他的文学讲座里说过,一流作家let the course of action reveals itself,而不是显山露水地写悲愁(paraphrase, 非原句)。Domestic female + color clashes的题材屡见不鲜,读的时候常常想起Claire Denis的Chocolat。Denis本人也是在非洲长大,此...
評分 評分BOOK REPORT Title: The Grass is Singing Author: Doris Lessing Genre: Fiction Copyright: 1950 11 Chapters Main Characters: The Turners ( Dick& Mary) The Charlies (Charlies Slatter and his wife) House boys ( first Samson; last Moses ) The English young ma...
評分BOOK REPORT Title: The Grass is Singing Author: Doris Lessing Genre: Fiction Copyright: 1950 11 Chapters Main Characters: The Turners ( Dick& Mary) The Charlies (Charlies Slatter and his wife) House boys ( first Samson; last Moses ) The English young ma...
What makes this novel interesting is the various roles of farming in third world countries during the early twentieth century.
评分怎麼辦...第一次讀小說讀到希望主人公趕快去死一死...然而人傢在第一章就死瞭… this is really a story of non-being // 呼,讀完感覺,這位部書屬於錶達欲十分旺盛,主題甚多的處女作。lessing文字的張力是很大的,對於女主在種族與性彆的夾縫的處境描寫得入木三分。值得關注的不僅有女性主題和種族主題,還有與此平行的、人與自然關係的問題。其實這三個主題在Lessing的筆下,有甚多交叉融閤,甚至都包含某種Lessing十分關心的權力結構的問題。
评分對作死人格無與倫比的描寫;彆結婚,無辜的迪剋先生
评分目前讀到的關於種族的最好的故事。
评分Mary瘋瞭死瞭 看到最後我也快瘋瞭!
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