内容简介
the Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five is thesecond volume in Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction series,'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. In this interlinked quintet of novels,she creates a new, extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth isinfluenced by the rivalries and interactions of three powerfulgalactic empires, Canopus, Sirius and their enemy, Puttiora. Blendingmyth, fable and alegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionarycreation both reflects and redefines the history of own world from itsearliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction.
The Marriagesis set in the indeterminate lands of the Zones,Strange realms which encircle the Earth. Zone Three, a peaceful,contented, matriarchalparadise, is ruled by the gentle QueenAl-Ith;the neighbouring Zone four is land given to war and chaos,controlled by brutal warrior-king, Ben-Ata. Their marriage, a meldingof the extreme male and female principles, threatens to destabilisethe entire galactic empire.
专业书评
'Doris Lessing's preoccupation with the balance ofdominance and need between the sexes has here extraordinary scope. Avisionary fable full of strong, romantic ideas. - Gay Firth, The Times
'Doris Lessing has chosen the language of fairy tales in order to keepthe memory of ordinary earthlings' sexual love, its antagonisms, itsmoments of bliss. Her touch is glancing, amused, feline throughout.' -Marina Warner, Sunday Times
'The Marriages is a feminist allegory of the relations between thesexes, full of the constant charm of the unexpected and thediscoveries of an imagination surrendering itself to the momentum ofits own narrative and visual invention.' - Robert Towers, New YorkTimes
作者简介
Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia (nowIran) in 1919 and was taken to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) whenshe was five. She spent her childhood on a large farm there and firstcame to England in 1949. She brought with her the manuscript of herfirst novel, The Grass is Singing, which was published in 1950 withoutstanding success in Britain, in America, and in ten Europeancountries. Since then her international reputation not only as anovelist but as a non-fiction and short story writer hasflourished. For her collection of short novels, Five, she was honouredwith the 1954 Somerset Maugham Award. She was awarded the AustrianState Prize for European Literature in 1981, and the German FederalRepublic Shakespeare Prize of 1982. Among her other celebrated novelsare The Golden Notebook, The Summer Before the Dark and Memoirs of aSurvivor. Her short stories have been collected in a number ofvolumes, including To Room Nineteen and The Temptation of Jack Orkney;while her African stories appear in This Was the Old Chief's Countryand The Sun Between Their Feet. Shikasta, the first in a series offive novels with the overall title of Canopus in Argos: Archives, waspublished in 1979. Her novel The Good Terrorist won the W. H. SmithLiterary Award for 1985, and the Mondello Prize in Italy thatyear. The Fifth Child won the Grinzane Cavour Prize in Italy, an awardvoted on by students in their final year at school. The Making of theRepresentative for Planet 8 was made into an opera with Philip Glass,libretto by the author, and premiered in Houston. London Observed, herlatest collection of stories and sketches, was published to wideacclaim in 1992.
| 出版社 | Flamingo |
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| 作者 | Doris May Lessing |
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