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A fairer estimate lies somewhere between drinks. Although writers from Poe and Hawthorne to William Burroughs, Anthony Burgess and Doris Lessing have written what could be called science fiction, professional science-fiction writers have rarely been encouraged to be good stylists as well. This is partly because SF publishing and...
Miss Lessing leaves little doubt where her sympathies lie. In the final pages of The Four-Gated City, she had already worked out a theory that what is commonly called madness may often be extraordinary vision-an anticipation of the next evolution of mankind. Like Watkins, she is prepared to...
Upon this mystical heaven, upon the great white bird that takes Watkins there-in other words upon some ultimate metaphysical truth-Miss Lessing stakes her faith in the future. Her self-absorption is both irritating and fascinating as she gambles at the borderline of sanity, just as she once gambled...
More than a decade ago Norman Mailer predicted that the cultural hero of the future might be the "philosophical psychopath." That future has arrived, for Miss Lessing is not alone. To a psychiatrist like R.D. Laing, madness, the rationalist's despair, has become a romantic last hope. "Perhaps," agrees...
Doris Lessing is prepared to assume-as others have before her-that in a world gone mad, those whom the world calls mad may be the only sane ones. What she has forfeited-and the loss has to be enormous for any novelist-is the scale of humanity. To the...