Download The Cleft by Doris Lessing PDF

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By: Doris Lessing

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  • CategoryFantasy
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages260
  • Published2007
  • File size778 KB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9780007233434

Key ideas from the book

  • It reimagines human origins through a society initially composed entirely of female beings.
  • It explores how sex difference can develop into social conflict and hierarchy.
  • It uses speculative fantasy to question familiar ideas about human beginnings.
  • It considers how historical narratives are shaped by perspective and storytelling.
  • It suits readers interested in feminist literature, mythology, and gender-focused fiction.

About The Cleft by Doris Lessing

Published in 2007, The Cleft is a speculative fantasy that reimagines human origins through a female society living before the appearance of males. From this unusual premise, Doris Lessing develops a provocative meditation on sex, difference, conflict, and the structures societies build around them.

The novel also examines how stories of the past are created, preserved, and shaped by the people who tell them. It will appeal to readers of feminist fantasy, myth-inspired fiction, gender-focused literature, and Doris Lessing’s later work.

About Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing (1919–2013) was a British-Zimbabwean novelist, essayist, and memoirist whose work explored politics, colonialism, feminism, psychology, and human consciousness. Born in Persia and raised in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), she moved to London in 1949 and became one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Her best-known books include The Grass Is Singing, The Golden Notebook, the Children of Violence series, and the science-fiction Canopus in Argos sequence.…

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