Mara and Dann

Mara and Dann, Doris Lessing, Barcelona, Ediciones B, 2005 (1999)

This is a travel book. Read inside a train is specially suggestive. First, the home offers in the strip that surrounds it, a comment from a critic of the Los Angeles Times that talks about “a provocative and stimulating work.” Admittedly, this is a story that makes you think. Nothing could be further than provocatively, we can only say that he is a different book. Far from the author’s previous “one critic said recently in El Pais, which only a writer like Lessing, I would publish a book as difficult as this one, as Ben and his world (2000) or diaries describing the wonderful of his life, like The Golden Notebook (1962). An engaged woman, left, post-communist, a feminist, a fighter in life, generations model, which forged through travel. This book is a little life, a story of learning, initiation, where two young men in search of the world, fleeing from their origins, forced from their land after a bad end with his family, of noble descent. Do not remember his name, other names are imposed to replace the originals.

A different story but also reminds the best Lessing. The taste for the fight against the injustices of the women being pregnant is a handicap, independence remains a fact that a person needs to survive, change constantly. Is a model of struggle which can help to understand the personal development of psychological profiles of other accounts. As the model of Mara, with Els silencis de Maria (2008). Intriguing parallels that help understand the architecture of the literature.