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Either Doris Lessing's much proclaimed vision has tired and gone limp, or, it has been overrated from the start. With over a dozen books behind her, ranging from poetry and reportage to novel upon novel, the author of the last collection of stories might as well be begging posterity...
To write vaguely about vagueness is no less criminal, in fiction as elsewhere, than to write blandly about blandness, as if it were scripture. Fortunately, the other stories in the collection are somewhat more authoritative--with a little help from our friends D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. One story, "Not...
THE SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL by Hans Handler. Photographs by Erich Lessing. 272 pages. McGraw-Hill. $29.95. In 1580 the Habsburgs began importing strong, intelligent and graceful horses from the Iberian Peninsula to the town of Lippiza. Hans Handler traces the history of the Spanish Riding School, where the Lippizaner horses...
Doris Lessing's novels, rugged and sensibly made, move with great deliberation over some of the major issues of our time: the appeal of Marxism, technology, the loss of political and religious faith, and the struggle for personal freedom, especially women's. Yet the very qualities that make...
Doris Lessing herself has gone the route from Marxist materialism to Sufi mysticism. The parallel with Orkney is quietly apparent. So is the meaning: that the beliefs one holds at various times are not always as important as the journey to and from them.