by Doris Lessing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423330584
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«Un paseo por la sombra» is the second volume of Doris Lessing's memoirs, published by Destino in paperback (527 pages, in Spanish).
The second volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography covers the years 1949-1962. Lessing recounts her arrival in London after leaving Africa, her personal and professional life, and her reflections on the society and politics of the era. Individual experience and collective testimony merge in this journey through a period of the twentieth century.
Subtitled «Segundo volumen de mi autobiografía, 1949-1962», it was originally published in 1998.
For readers of memoirs and biographies, interested in Doris Lessing and in the cultural and political atmosphere of London in the 1950s and 1960s.
Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Lessing was born to British parents in Qajar Iran, where she lived until she was 6 in 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving to London, England, in 1949. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
