by Doris Lessing · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807811814
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«L'abitudine di amare» is Doris Lessing's collection of seventeen short stories, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (328 pages, in Italian).
The seventeen stories, set in Africa, England, Germany and France, explore sexuality, relationships and human contradictions. Among them are a mature seducer, a woman who misses her husband, a plague of locusts, a solitary dreamer and two British travellers in postwar Germany.
The original title is The Habit of Loving (1957) and the Italian translation is by Vincenzo Mantovani; it belongs to Feltrinelli's Universale Economica collection.
For readers of short stories who want to approach Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize in Literature, with a representative sample of her short fiction.
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).
