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The Memoirs of a Survivor is not an ordinary novel. Doris Lessing's work has generally focused on one woman's struggle so find and identity in the modern world Politically (she grew up in-Rhodesin and has spent a great deal of energy examining her colonialist background), and as...
THE MEMOIRS OF A SURVIVOR by DORIS LESSING 213 pages. Knopf. $6.95.
British Novelist Doris Lessing is a mystic. Once, in The Golden Notebook, her frontier was women's liberation. In Briefing for a Descent into Hell, and now in The Memoirs of a Survivor, she has so abstracted herself from the present and the actual as to deserve another name...
Mrs. Lessing's final, heartbreaking effect is to place her characters and her readers between the dead ghosts of the past and the unborn ghosts of the future. She goes so far as to invent a set of rooms into which, as in a recurrent dream, her narrator magically...
In the text, Saidy has provided some moving excerpts from his diary of a fumbled tournament that cost him a grand master's rating. Lessing has wittily recalled a misspent youth in one of Manhattan's less salubrious chess-and coffeehouses. The authors have also taken care to...