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A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London's Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the doctors of his incredible fantastical voyage, adrift on the ocean, landing on unknown shores, flying on the back of a huge white bird. Identified as Charles Watkins, a Cambridge Classics professor, he is visited by family and friends, each revealing clues to the nature of his breakdown. As the doctors try to cure him, Watkins begins a fierce battle to hold on to his magnificent inner world, as it gradually acquires a greater reality than the everyday... 'Briefing for a Descent into Hell' is one of Doris Lessing's most brilliantly achieved novels, linking her early work, which explored the nature of subjectivity, with her later experiments in science fiction. Its indictment of the tyranny of society is powerful, disturbing and, as always, magnificently rendered.… (más)
paradoxosalpha: Spiritually-oriented narratives in which sanity and reality are brought into hypothetical opposition, both with science-fictional elements.
Charles Walkins, un hombre condenado a navegar por las corrientes que llevan al mar de los Sargazos, recala en una isla paradisíaca poblada por seres antropomorfos. En ese lugar inhóspito, Walkins halla el Cristal de Luz con el que emprende un viaje astral: un recorrido por las profundidades del cosmos en el que tropieza con seres mitológicos, con personajes hostiles que le conducen a un extraño juicio, a un proceso en el que deberá enfrentarse a su propio pasado a través del testimonio de las personas que han sido cruciales en su vida. Se trata de un litigio en el que se examina su experiencia como partisano en Yugoslavia... Se trata, quizás, del delirio del catedrático de literatura clásica Charles Walkins, ingresado en el área de psiquiatría del Central Intake Hospital de Londres.
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If yonder raindrop should its heart disclose, Behold therein a hundred seas displayed. In every atom, if thou gaze aright, Thousands of reasoning beings are contained. The gnat in limbs doth match the elephant. In name is yonder drop as Nile's broad flood. In every grain a thousand harvests dwell. The world within a grain of millet's heart. The universe in the mosquito's wing contained. Within that point in space the heaavens roll. Upon one little spot within the heart Resteth the Lord and Master of the worlds. Therein two worlds commingled may be seen... --The Sage Mahmoud Shabistari, 14th Century (The Secret Garden)
This miniscule world of the sand grains is also the world of inconceivably minute beings, which swim through the liquid film around a grain of sand as fish would swim through the ocean covering the sphere of the earath. Among this fauna and flora of the capillary water are single-celled animals and plants water mites, shrimplike crustacea, insects, and the larvae of infinitely small worms--all living, dying, swimming, feeding, breathing, reproducing is a world so small that our human senses cannot grasp its scale, a world in which the microdroplet of water separating one grain of sand from another is like a vast, dark sea. Marine Biologist Rachel Carson, 20th century (The Edge of the Sea)
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this is for my son John, the sea-loving man
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Friday 15th August 1969 Admittance Sheet Name: Unknown Sex: Male Age: Unknown Address: Unknown General Remarks: At midnight the police found Patient wandering on the Embankment near Waterloo Bridge.
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A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London's Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the doctors of his incredible fantastical voyage, adrift on the ocean, landing on unknown shores, flying on the back of a huge white bird. Identified as Charles Watkins, a Cambridge Classics professor, he is visited by family and friends, each revealing clues to the nature of his breakdown. As the doctors try to cure him, Watkins begins a fierce battle to hold on to his magnificent inner world, as it gradually acquires a greater reality than the everyday... 'Briefing for a Descent into Hell' is one of Doris Lessing's most brilliantly achieved novels, linking her early work, which explored the nature of subjectivity, with her later experiments in science fiction. Its indictment of the tyranny of society is powerful, disturbing and, as always, magnificently rendered.
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