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Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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crown

Groundbreaking

Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2013

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Doris Lessing's real achievement in this book, I think, was simply in her matter-of-fact her handling of controversial matters (controversial in the period between World War II and the sixties, at any rate). She writes about the life of a divorced woman with a child, her relationships with that child, with her best (woman) friend, with her lovers, her comrades in the English CP, her body, the political world, etc., in ways that are remarkable for their straightforward candor. At the time a woman writing about her day-to-day life would be likely to either write in circumlocutions to avoid being indelicate or else be deliberately provocative. Lessing does neither of those: she simply tells the truth as she sees it. Which, in a repressed society, is itself a revolutionary act. That's not all there is to the book, not by a long shot, but that's what stood out for me on first reading.

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Not the easiest read, but worthwhile to trudge through

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2023

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A complex and interesting book, it was a great book to read for a book group which included women who read this when it first came out. A bit dated, and a somewhat uneven read, it still was impressive structurally (divided into several notebooks and interlacing stories), and gave glimpses into the political climate and views of women in the 1950s. Also a good depiction of dissociation, madness, and introspection in the main character, Anna.

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I finished this book several weeks ago. I understand it was important when it was published in the 1960's. Feminists greeted its frank description of menstruation and sexual intercourse as great leaps forward in the process of liberation. This male thought it was TMI. If that's liberty no wonder so few people want it.
I was impressed however by Lessing's description of the failure of Communism. I appreciated the disillusionment and despair so many true believers felt as they ignored horror stories from Stalinist Russia. It was heartbreaking. They hoped that our Original Fallen State could be overcome with better organization and motivation.
There are many Americans who still believe "education" can overcome drug abuse, teenage pregnancy and suicide. Their optimism is not very different from that of communist sympathizers. They deny the reality of concupiscence, that innate tendency to sin which corrupts every human endeavor. The effort itself is corrupt.
The book ends when Anna Wulf gives up her quest to be an artiste and assumes her quotidian duty to mother her daughter. She surrenders her individuality and becomes a person at last. It would be wonderful if she learned through the experience to be a person who writes.

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should be required reading

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2013

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i first ran across this novel in the 1970's, in PB in a used bookshop. i was "blown away" as we too often said back then but Lessing's honed insights have not become less relevant, or less affective... while some of the readers I've known take issue with her conceptual frameworks, i'm always moved by how perceptive she is about the fragility and intensity of insight, and how well she tracks the difficulty of building a world, any world, based on empathy, intuition, and connection. re-reading this after 25 years ( it used to be an annual event) has opened up a new set of perceptions. she always makes it worthwhile.

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F. Tait

a riveting approach to self knowledge

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2014

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Doris Lessing's searing and relentless self-probing and analysis of what it was to be an intelligent, thoughtful woman in the chaos of post-war London is as thought-provoking and readable today as when it was written. One wonders how a dialogue between Doris and Henry Miller might have been (perhaps she had one?) or Lawrence Durrell. They too broke boundaries in style and expression in pursuit of the big existential questions around meaning, love, justice, equality, loneliness and sanity, but seen through a man's lens.
Doris was, as I understand it, disappointed that the book was seized upon and claimed as a feminist tract. Indeed. For it's subject matter is much bigger than that.

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Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2013

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A classic in its time. Read it now if you want to understand what people were thinking and feeling in the 1960s. I just downloaded it on kindle to read it again, decades after I first read it. If you are in your 20s, you will see yourself in many of the emotional decisions over love, destiny, children and finding a sense of purpose in life. Clearly this Nobelist found hers, but she did us all a favor by giving us a good look at the messy journey she took to achieve her life.

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Andrea Pecoriello

Don’t buy it in kindle format

Reviewed in Mexico on February 22, 2024

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Ebook version is terrible. Everything is underline and tried to change it but couldn’t. Had to return it due to the imposibilite of reading such a format.