Children of Violence
In this article, we will explore Children of Violence from different perspectives, with the aim of delving into its meaning, importance and applications. Likewise, we will analyze the implications that Children of Violence has in various contexts, whether in the personal, professional, social or cultural sphere. Through a multidisciplinary approach, we will address different aspects related to Children of Violence, with the purpose of offering a comprehensive and enriching vision on this topic. Through reflection, analysis and research, we aim to provide the reader with a broader and more detailed understanding of Children of Violence, allowing them to acquire relevant and useful knowledge for their personal and professional development.
The Children of Violence is a sequence of five semi-autobiographical novels by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing: Martha Quest (1952), A Proper Marriage (1954), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), Landlocked (1965), and The Four-Gated City (1969). The novels "are strongly influenced by Lessing's rejection of a domestic family role and her involvement with communism." Lessing identifies the sequence as a Bildungsroman.
The series follows the life of protagonist Martha Quest from adolescence until her death, which takes place in the future, in the year 1997. The first four novels are set during the 1930s and 1940s, in the fictional country of Zambesia, based on the former British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where Lessing lived from 1925 until 1949. The fifth work, The Four-Gated City, is set in London, primarily in the 1950s and 1960s. The novel's appendix extends into a dystopian future in which Britain has become uninhabitable due to an unspecified catastrophe, speculated to be either a nuclear detonation or mass contamination from chemical weapons following a fire at Porton Down.
References
- ^ From the dust jacket of the first edition of The Four-Gated City.
- ^ "Doris Lessing - Literature". literature.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
- ^ a b Lessing, Doris (1972). The four gated city. London: Panther Granada. p. 671. ISBN 0-586-03620-2. OCLC 12317219.
- ^ "Biography". www.dorislessing.org.
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