Is it a feminist novel? A socialist novel? A psychological drama? A battle-of-the-sexes novel? A novel about racism? Of course, it is all of these and much more and, like all great novels, the whole is far greater than the sum of the parts and, indeed, is probably far more than the author realised or intended. Of course, the response to that is that it works on many levels and different readers see different things in it. It is so complex that Lessing herself complained that people did not understand it. This is one of the great English novels and essential reading for anyone vaguely interested in the novel. Home » England » Doris Lessing » The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing: The Golden Notebook
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