Physical description; 251 p. ; 21 cm. Subject; Modern fiction in English.
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"Touching and beautiful." --"The New York Review of Books""A brilliant and untamed image of the possibilities that may still constitute man's destiny." --"Time""An excursion into private consciousness . . . ending up in the darkest reaches of the unconscious at its most primitive." --"The Washington Post Book World"
Doris Lessing's new novel - which she defines as 'inner space fiction' - is an incomparably exciting voyage into the the marvellous, terrifying, unexplored, yet sometimes glimpsed territory of the inner man. Professor Charles Watkins (Classics), doomed to spin endlessly in the currents of the Atlantic, makes a landfall at last on a tropical shore. He discovers a ruined stone city, participates - moon-dazed - in bloody rituals in the paradisical forest, witnesses the savage war of the Rat-dogs and is borne on the back of the lordly White Bird across the sea of the dead. Finally, the Crystal claims him, whirling him out into space on a breathtaking cosmic journey. Yet this most exotic of trips is firmly rootedin the reality of a mental breakdown as De Quincey's fantasies were in the chemistry of opium. Watkins is a patient of Central Intake Hosptial, an enigma to the doctors who try with ever more powerful drugs to subdue his mind's adventure, a candidate for electric shock treatment. In a series of extraordinary letters - brilliantly illuminating both on the writers and their subject - Watkins is reconstructed by those who have know him: the forgotten women who have loved him; the pedant, incensed by his intellectual anarchy; the wartime colleague around whose exploits with the Yugoslavian partisans Watkins builds an astonishing fantasy. Doris Lessing believes that society's treatment of the mentally ill is civilisation's biggest and blackest blind spot, and that it is through the minds of the 'broken-down' that truths we choose to shut out enter like the disguised messengers in myths and fairy tales. Developing themes central to The Golden Notebook and The Four Gated City, this book is her most astounding imaginative achievement - a rare work which explores new areas of thought.
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Hardcover. Condición: Fair. 251 pages. Dj worn. Spine cocked. Ex-libraryAn extraordinary blend of fantasy and realism, this is classic Lessing. Penni less, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London's Emb ankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the doctors of his incr. Nº de ref. del artículo: 3313k
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hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. the boards are shelf worn, a bit knocked. foxing and markings. ownership inscriptions. text remains legible. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Nº de ref. del artículo: f50fv
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, small tears and edge worn. Now protected in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Nº de ref. del artículo: 57nt
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Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. jacket is shelf rubbed, edge worn and a bit torn. tanning, soiling and foxing inside book. well bound. fair copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Nº de ref. del artículo: amnf
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. 1st Edition. 251 pages (complete). Dust jacket a bit shelf rubbed, has small edge tears, corner nip. Boards shelf rubbed and marked. Previous ownership inscriptions, light foxing damp marks- not affecting the text. However, it is still in good condition, tightly bound and intact. 1st edition. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Nº de ref. del artículo: bbcv
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