So sometime in the early 1980s Doris Lessing decided to become anonymous again and try her hand at publishing without the benefit of being Doris Lessing. She explains in the opening introduction to the collected volume of these two novels that in part she was feeling somewhat pigeon-holed or labeled, not necessarily as a particular type of writer so much as herself. And if you’re familiar with her writing, many of her novels are similar in a lot of ways, but many of them go […]
Passivity is a great virtue, sometimes.
The Diary of a Good Neighbour by Doris Lessing
If the Old Could... by Doris Lessing
