Doris Lessing Wins Nobel for Literature

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<p>I am teaching a course on literature and psychoanalysis. I wanted to teach Doris Lessing THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOKS. Plot line very much resolves around analysis. I found, sadly, that it is completely out of print! I hope her win will rectify this. I also wanted to teach Alice Walker’s POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY, also out of print.</p>

<p>We teachers fall back on the tired canon when that’s all we can get for our students. </p>

<p>BTW: The Martha Quest series, culminating in THE FOUR GATED CITY is amazing. I was very influenced by it at 20. Some of its apocalyptic predictions are materializing.</p>

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<p>Mythmom, me too, me too! She was absolutely my FAVORITE author(ess) when I was in my 20s. I read and re-read The Golden Notebook until it fell apart, and I SO identified with Martha Quest. Unfortunately I did not like her later work so much, so I sort of let her go . . . but I’m thrilled that she will now be rediscovered!</p>