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More than Primitive. Implicit in Lessing's analysis is the belief that man can use increasingly sophisticated science to solve his problems and, at the same time, ensure that science does not turn on its master and destroy him. He suggests that society has little choice other than to...
A third of the way through Doris Lessing's new novel, a great white bird appears-4 ft. tall with a straight yellow beak. The light shines off its feathers "like sun off a snowfield." Its eyes are round, golden and steadily staring-in invitation, in challenge.
BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL by Doris Lessing. 308 pages. Knopf. $6.95.
After the five novels in the Children of Violence series, and after The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing has finally confronted her Moby Dick. All the weathered idealism that survived two arduous decades of fiction-writing in South Africa, then England-all the hopefulness of a fundamentally hopeful woman-has gone...
Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook (1962) is a key to the new book, as it is a key to all her work. The sections of the notebook divide themselves by color. Black: dealing with Africa-the failed hope of homeland for one of her principal characters. Red: dealing...