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Alfred and Emily is a book by Doris Lessing in a new hybrid form. Part fiction, part notebook, part memoir, it was first published in 2008. The book is based on the lives of Lessing's parents. Part one is a novella, a fictional portrait of how her parents' lives might have been without the interruption of the First World War.
- Doris May Lessing
- 2008
In this extraordinary book, the 2007 Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War. Her father wanted the simple life of an English farmer, but shrapnel almost killed him in the trenches, and thereafter he had to wear a wooden leg.
14 apr 2021 · By here returning to Lessing’s final rendition of her upbringing in Alfred and Emily, I track how her abiding preoccupation with colonialism – her entanglements with the British Empire and its aftermath – registers in the form, as well as the content of her life writing.
- Emma Parker
- 2021
1 giorno fa · Autore. Doris Lessing. Editore. Casa editrice. Feltrinelli. Nel romanzo si immagina che l'Europa non sia stata sconvolta dalla Prima e poi dalla Seconda guerra mondiale, e che tutte le pulsioni belliche siano state dirottate in imprese coloniali extraeuropee.
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10 ago 2008 · The alternate story Lessing creates here begins when Alfred Tayler and Emily McVeagh meet at a country cricket match when they are not yet 20. The meeting is pure fiction, yet believable; at...
1 gen 2008 · Alfred and Emily. Doris Lessing. 3.19. 1,335 ratings244 reviews. The first book after Doris' Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead. 'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me.
20 ott 2009 · Paperback – October 20, 2009. Alfred and Emily is an intimate and revealing book by Doris Lessing, the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature and author of The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, that explores the lives of her parents, each irrevocably damaged by the Great War.
