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Bewertet in Spanien am 9. Januar 2023
Great book, a classic
Mimetta
Bewertet in Frankreich am 30. August 2023
Très célèbre, ce livre est absolument à lire, comme toutes les oeuvres de ce très grand écrivain.
Umamaheswari
Bewertet in Indien am 3. Oktober 2022
Shows the demerits of the technology
Sophie Cayeux
Bewertet in Deutschland am 8. November 2015
I chose to buy the audiobook from Audible instead of the book because of the length of the story (27 hours 35 min). I took it on a long journey.The narration is superb. It captivated my attention from the first minute and there wasn’t one dull moment. What a fabulous compilation of stories and what a amazing structure for a biography. It encompasses most subjects relevant to one who lived during the 20th century. The author made me feel all her experience as if she was a friend just chatting to me – and not all the subjects I was familiar with or did they form part of my usual interests and some of them were subjects that I would normally find tiresome as I’ve heard too much about them… But the author recounts her experience in such a vivid way that it makes it all feel timeless and fascinating. Her prose is so emotional that it touches a deep chord in every human soul. An amazing example of enthralling story telling.
Customer
Bewertet in Australien am 22. November 2015
Fantastic read.
Monica C Pinheiro
Bewertet in Brasilien am 11. April 2014
Fazia tempo que este livro estava na minha lista dos que eu queria ler. Quando Doris Lessing ganhou o Prêmio Nobel, fiquei ainda mais interessada em conhecer seu trabalho. Comecei a leitura empolgada e gostei bastante das suas considerações de âmbito político sobre o envolvimento de um grupo de jovens na militância de esquerda dos anos 40 na África. Mas logo achei a narrativa confusa e repetitiva, com muitas idas e vindas, entremeios complicados de cenas da vida real com outras semelhantes criadas por uma das personagens, escritora bem sucedida. Pareceu-me um livro cansativo e desnecessariamente longo, apesar de muitos trechos interessantes que me fizeram gostar de tê-lo lido.
actaeon@gateway.net
Bewertet in Deutschland am 26. Januar 2000
Future generations will call this the most important novel of the 20th century, or at least they should, for this is the book that expresses the major themes of the world in that century. What we now call gender issues (now there's a broad label!) occupy a major portion of the novel, but it is just as much a picture of the Fear of humanity during the Cold War times, when every day we were 30 minutes from doomsday. It is about racism and colonialism and the fading of empire; it is about the breakdown of society in the technological age; it is about single mothers; it is about mental states and breakdowns. It is about Communism, and have we not heard the 20th century called the Age of Communism? All this is not what makes this a great novel. Each time I've reread it, the more it seemed I could almost put my finger on something-a question of identity, or what it means to be human. "Breakdown" is a word appearing throughout the novel-by the end, it almost seems to mean "break through": break through the rhetoric, break through the categories. The Golden Notebook speaks to deep emotions-something there is that needs to shine through, to grow, to love and to be loved. This novel reached down to that. It is sometimes painful, sometimes provoking a fear/hate reaction, or a feeling of dislocation. This is the kind of book that you often have to slap down on the table, pace the room, and work off the tension that has built. Doris Lessing wrote once that she considered this novel something of a failure, for it only names the issues, exploring briefly, but not solving. I can see what she means-this is a novel that forces the reader to wrestle with themselves as much as the characters. This is why some people read the novel and yawn, and why some read the novel and are profoundly changed. One must be at a crossroads, unsettled. Read this book. Let it change you.
Translator
Bewertet in Deutschland am 12. April 2000
I agree with both of the comments given above. The book can be absorbing - and for me it was, when I was about 25.It did change my life. But you mustn't imagine that these changes are something like putting down the book, starting a new job, becoming a member in another party or trying to get in contact with a new sort of people. It is a slower change, more subtle and is based on the experiences while struggling with the book's questions.When I look back now, I'd say that it was the emotional grip which kept me thinking about it for years on. And these thoughts based on the feelings evoked by the narrative have led to the changes. Even today I'm astonished about how intensively I experienced reading it, how enthusiastic I was reading on.I could start giving some literary criticism, talking about language and structure (which admittedly all play a part in it), but reading the book will be rewarding only if you have somehow the same attitude, the same problems, the same view on life as the protagonists (and for this you don't necessarily have to be around 20 or 30). Then the book will have a strong influence on you, because then you'll feel an emotional grip, otherwise I think reading it would be a waste of time.Lessing herself knew this and unlike many other authors she wisely recommended not reading it when it's not the time for it.
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