Name: Shikasta (in Spanish)
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Author: Doris Lessing
ISBN: 9788445074497

Type

Physical Book

Author

Doris Lessing

Publisher

Minotauro

Collection

general

Year

2003

Language

Spanish

Pages

520

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

8445074490

ISBN13

9788445074497

Edited in

España

Synopsis "Shikasta (in Spanish)"

CANOPUS EN ARGOS I: ARCHIVOS Johor, el enviado del planeta Canopus, somete a observación al planeta Shikasta, mucho más atrasado y bárbaro que el suyo. Constatará que aquél se encuentra al borde de la aniquilación a causa de las guerras, el hambre, las enfermedades y los desastres ambientales. Una situación ocasionada por la nefasta influencia del planeta Shammat, perteneciente al Imperio de Puttoria, que persigue la destrucción de la civilización en el universo.Sintiéndose incapaz de cumplir con la orden de salvar a la especie humana, Johor realiza una serie de exhaustivos informes a fin justificar su impotencia mediante la descripción de la locura autodestructiva que se ha apoderado de ella.La historia de la milenaria Shikasta es la historia del planeta Tierra y de las razas que lo han habitado. Construida como una serie de exhaustivos informes, ésta es una alegoría que disecciona los grandes males de la humanidad, y constituye, como primera entrega de la trilogía Canopus en Argos, la obra más ambiciosa de Doris Lessing.«Un libro magnífico y asombroso..., una crónica de toda la humanidad, el espíritu, la Tierra, las estrellas, el alma, la virtud, el pre-Edén eterno. »The Times

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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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