Author of the Year: 2013
The most significant author who died in 2013.
Doris Lessing (1919-2013)
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It's not always this way. Often reversed. "A SHORT STORY A man and a woman, in a love affair. She, for hunger of love, he for refuge."
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Anna's treatment for her exquisite private pain. This novel is so transportive into the 20th century, arouses a kind of nostalgia.
"[At this point the diary stopped, as a personal document. It continued in the form of newspaper cuttings, carefully pasted in and dated.]"
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There's so much I want to say about Ella/Anna and Paul/Michael but feel constrained not to.
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#Lessing24 #GoldenNotebook Ella's novel an allegory of totalitarianism?
"the moment of death that the link between the dark need for death, and death, itself, had been the wild, crazy fantasies of a beautiful life; and that the commonsense and the order had been...but intimations of madness."
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This resonates now!
"Election Day: Labour in, reduced majority....(In campaign H. Q. Maker of joke, Comrade Bill.) 'If we'd got another two thousand votes, the Labour majority would have been on a knifeedge. Every cloud has a silver lining.'"
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Uh, no. This the cause of so many of the world's evils.
'"After all, there's nothing wrong, in itself, in wanting there to be great men in the world.'"
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Yes! I am the same!
"'but he said he would be interested to meet the first intellectual prepared to join the Party since the cold war started.' One reason not to, that I hate joining anything,"
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