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Ben In The World

Name: Ben In The World
Rating: 2.0 (1 reviews)
Author: Doris Lessing

Auteur: Doris Lessing

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Doris Lessing Doris Lessing

Engels
Paperback
9780006552291
02 april 2001
192 pagina's

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Doris Lessing

"Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).

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From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the sequel to one of her most celebrated novels, 'The Fifth Child'. Doris Lessing's 1988 novel, made a powerful impact on publication. Its account of idyllic marital and parental bliss shattered by the arrival of the feral fifth child of the Lovatts made for unnerving and compulsive reading. That child, Ben, is the central character of this sequel, which picks up the fable at the end of his childhood and takes our primal, misunderstood, maladjusted teenager out into the world. He meets mostly with mockery, fear and incomprehension, but with just enough kindness and openness to keep him afloat as his adventures take him from London to the south of France and on to South America in his restless quest for community, companionship and peace. Lessing employs a plain, unadorned prose fit for fables; again, we have a childlike perspective at the heart of the book; again, the world in all its malevolence and misapprehension swirls around at the edge, while, occasionally, a strong character steps forward to try to set a good example.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 april 2001
Aantal pagina's: 192
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Doris Lessing
Tweede Auteur: Doris Lessing
Hoofduitgeverij: FLGO

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Editie: New ed
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 11 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 130 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 198 mm
Verpakking lengte: 12 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 146 g

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Taal: Engels
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Disappointing sequel
- pdoornb
- 27 februari 2012
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Lessing wrote this book 12 years after her heart-rending novel “The Fifth Child”. That book was written from a family perspective: the parents, their four children and other relatives about the wonderful life this family led until the unplanned, fifth pregnancy. Ben’s birth weight was 5 kilos despite being a month early. And everyone stared at him, thinking, ”what is this”? Ben looked like a baby from prehistory.
The traumatic pregnancy caused stress in the family, his birth worsened tension year upon year… Ben learns some basics in school, but at home he has to be locked in overnight. He disappears from the family he disrupted so thoroughly and unknowingly, at age 15.
This novel presents Ben at the age of 18, hirsute, looking 35+ and immensely strong. He is always cheated out of his rightful pay in physical jobs, and barely survives in London, sleeping in parks or doorways. His oldest warm memory is his mother, who retrieved him from a deadly mental institution his father had moved him to. And old Mrs. Gibbs, who took him in after an incident in a supermarket and taught him a few key things. And 17-year old prostitute Rita, who likes Ben’s primitive lovemaking. She is controlled by Johnston, a criminal, who uses Ben successfully in a big drug deal, then abandons him in Nice, France.
So, 3 persons love Ben. The rest of the world not. The book then moves to Brazil. In my humble opinion, esp. the book’s account of Ben’s life in Brazil is poorly plotted, written and edited. Ben wins another friend, Teresa, but also kindles the ambitions of people who want to exploit him in the name of science. Readers will understand Ben better, even feel pity for him, but the book is a poor sequel to “The Fifth Child”.

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