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A Subjective Introduction to Doris Lessing

Summary/Abstract: Due to her novel, The Golden Notebook, Literary Nobel Prize Winner Doris Lessing is famous as a writer who „in her works articulated the female experience”. This essay offers a subjective introduction to her works focusing not on a feminist interpretation of her works, but on two important notions, that can be found in almost all of her novels: the need to follow the norms, and the strong inner urge to break them. The essay presents the dichotomy of normality and abnormality in Lessing’s first novel (The Grass is Singing), the fight against patriarchal order in The Golden Notebook, the difference between health and sickness in The Fifth Child and Ben in the World, and dwells on the norm braking nature of love, time and memory in Lessing’s late novels (Love Again, Alfred and Emily).

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