In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
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.
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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.
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But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous psychological adventure where, after spinning endlessly on a raft in the Atlantic, he lands on a tropical island inhabited by strange creatures with strange customs. Later, he is carried off on a cosmic journey into space…. A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad.
Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in , and moved with her family to southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in and has lived there ever since. Don't have a Kindle?
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Be the first to review this item. Product description Review "Touching and beautiful. Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia in and taken to South Africa at the age of five. She spent the rest of her childhood on a large farm in Southern Rhodesia.
Briefing For a Descent Into Hell
At the age of eighteen, she became a telephone operator in Salisbury where she had, she says, 'the kind of compulsive good time described in Martha Quest'. In she came to London bringing with her the manuscript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing. Published the following year, the book was an outstanding success in Britain, in America and in ten European countires. Her subsequent novels have inlcuded the five-volume Children of Violence series and The Golden Notebook Reviewing this last book, the Sunday Times called Doris Lessing 'not only the best woman novelist we have but one of the most serious, intelligent and honest writers of the whole post-war generation'.
She is also the author of such short story collections as The Habit of Loving and of non-fiction books ranging from Going Home to Particularly Cats The Observer wrote of her: Share your thoughts with other customers. He was wearing trousers and a sweater, but he had no papers or wallet or money or marks of identity. Police think he was robbed.
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He is an educated man. He was given two Libriums but did not sleep.
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He was talking loudly. Patient was moved into the small Observation ward as he was disturbing the other Patients. To celestial eyes, seen like a broth of microbes under a microscope, always at war and destruction, this scrum of microbes thinks, it can see in itself, it begins slowly to sense itself as one, a function, a note in the harmony, and this is its point and function, and where the scummy film transcends itself, here and here only, and never where the mad microbes say I, I, I, I, I, for saying I, I, I, I, is their madness this is where they have been struck lunatic, made moonmad, round the bend, crazy, for these microbes are a whole, they form a unity, they have a single mind, a single being, and never can they say I, I, without making the celestial watchers role with laughter or weep with pity-since I suppose we are free to presume compassion and derisive nurse in the guardians of the microbes; or at least we are free to imagine nothing else-compassion and amusements being qualities but who knows what sort of a colour or a sound laughter, tears make there in that finer kind of air?
I want to sleep, I don't sleep enough, but give me pills to make me sleep, give me alcohol to make me sleep, give me sex to make me sleep.