Name: Las cárceles que elegimos (in Spanish)
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Author: Doris Lessing
ISBN: 9788426405456

portada Las cárceles que elegimos (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Doris Lessing

Publisher

Lumen

Collection

LUMEN

Year

2018

Language

Spanish

Pages

144

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.1x14.5 cm

ISBN13

9788426405456

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Las cárceles que elegimos (in Spanish)"

Es esta una época en que da miedo estar vivo, en que es difícil pensar en los seres humanos como criaturas racionales. Dondequiera que uno mire solo ve brutalidad y estupidez [...]. Pero yo creo que, si bien es cierto que en líneas generales vamos a peor, es el hecho de que las cosas sean tan aterradoras lo que hace que nos quedemos como hipnotizados y no advirtamos #o, si las advertimos, les restemos importancia# fuerzas igualmente poderosas en el sentido contrario: las fuerzas de la razón, la cordura y la civilización.

En los ensayos inéditos que conforman este libro, Doris Lessing nos contagia la necesidad de cuestionar las convicciones políticas y morales que marcaron el siglo xx, y nos insta a cultivar un pensamiento crítico propio como única manera de hacer frente a los axiomas heredados del pasado. En un mundo globalizado e insensibilizado, la autora nos recuerda que el futuro de la humanidad no depende de la democracia ni de los grandes movimientos revolucionarios, sino de la capacidad del ser humano para analizarse, estudiar su comportamiento y aprender del ayer.

Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing (Iran, 1919 - London, 2013), was an English writer born in Persia, spent her childhood on a farm in Zimbabwe after her family moved there in 1924. She left school at 14 and was self-educated while working as a clinic assistant, marked by a contentious relationship with her mother that led her to become independent at 17. After two marriages and three children, she settled in England in 1949, where she began her literary career with The Grass is Singing (1950), a novel that denounced racism in Africa

Her work, influenced by her life in Africa and her communist activism, merges social criticism -colonialism, racial inequality- with autobiographical explorations, as in the series Children of Violence (1952-1969). She ventured into science fiction with Canopus in Argos and addressed women's emancipation in The Golden Notebook (1962), an iconic work that made her a feminist symbol despite her rejection of the label. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (2007) and the Prince of Asturias Award (2001), her legacy endures as one of the most critical and visionary voices of the 20th century.

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