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...story of a divorced writer named Anna Wulf told through her four notebooks, each of which is concerned with recording a different aspect of herself. Brilliant, autobiographical and feverishly experimental, it's a bravura portrait of a shattered self, richly adorned with ruthless commentary on psychoanalysis, Communism, England and Africa, and modern fiction. "This novel," Lessing has said of The Golden Notebook, "is an attempt to break a form; to break certain forms of consciousness and go beyond them. While writing it, I found I did not believe some of the things I thought I believed: or rather, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doris Lessing's Road to the Nobel | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...selection process as a kind of geopolitical checkers match, as the Swedish Academy plucks major figures from the national literatures of far-flung countries: China (Gao Xingjian, 2000) Trinidad and Tobago (V.S. Naipaul, 2001), Hungary (Irme Kertesz, 2002), South Africa (J.M. Coetzee, 2003), Austria (Elfriede Jelinek, 2004), England (Harold Pinter, 2005), Turkey (Orhan Pamuk, 2006). By choosing Doris Lessing in 2007 the Academy has scored a triple: she was born in Iran, known then as Persia, in 1919; raised in Zimbabwe, known then as Rhodesia; and lives in the U.K. In its citation, the academy called her "that epicist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doris Lessing's Road to the Nobel | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...bank clerk in Persia, then as a bush farmer in Rhodesia, with limited success. Lessing bridled at their strict Edwardian mores and left school at 13 - that was the end of her formal education, although she continued to read voraciously. She left home at 15, moved to England and became associated with the Communist movement. Her writing career began in earnest in 1950 with her first novel, The Grass Is Singing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doris Lessing's Road to the Nobel | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

Harvard co-ed sailing captain Kyle Kovacs proved as much on Saturday and Sunday in Boston, battling to a first-place finish at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association’s Singlehanded Championships. The win qualified the senior for the singlehanded national in November...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kovacs Cruises in Singlehanded Regatta | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...ENGLAND MEN’S SINGLEHANDED CHAMPIONSHIP

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kovacs Cruises in Singlehanded Regatta | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

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