Briefing for a Descent into Hell - Couverture souple

Lessing, Doris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0586038175 ISBN 13 : 9780586038178

Editeur : Triad Books, 1973

Synopsis

Book by DORIS LESSING

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.

Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous pyschological adventure that takes him from a spinning raft in the Atlantic to a ruined stone city on a tropical island to an outer-space journey through singing planets. As he travels in his mind through memory and the farther reaches of imagination, his doctors try to subdue him with ever more powerful drugs in a competition for his soul. In this provocative novel, Lessing takes us on a harrowing voyage into the rarely glimpsed territory of the inner mind.

Revue de presse

"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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Triad Books
• Date d'édition: 1973
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0586038175
• ISBN 13: 9780586038178
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible