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As the novel opens, Martha, in her thirties and a white refugee from colonial Africa, is wandering through a dislocated London where cellars are damp and paint is blistering and wood is rotting. In evoking a gray, totalitarian world, and in showing how, no matter what minor fluctuations the government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Will to (Still) Believe | 8/5/1969 | See Source »

IT WOULD SEEM, then, the Mrs. Lessing leaves little to believe in. And the statement is indeed true when applied to the first five-sixths of the book. However, there is another movement afoot. For a number of years now, a friend of mine--something of a neo-classicist himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Will to (Still) Believe | 8/5/1969 | See Source »

In its second emphasis, in its examination of insanity, The Four-Gated City offers one such vindication. For Lessing, the Coldridge townhouse is an elaborate metaphorical conceit--at its base, in its cellar, it house Linda, Mark's mad wife. In another novel produced during another time, Linda would have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Will to (Still) Believe | 8/5/1969 | See Source »

FOR MRS. LESSING, those that society has labelled mad are actually those super-perceptive, rare individuals whose natural telepathic and extrasensory powers have not atrophied. Martha, in her role as a letter-day Mrs. Dalloway peering into the crevice that separates two eras, discovers that she shares certain affinities with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Will to (Still) Believe | 8/5/1969 | See Source »

All quite far-fetched? Yes. Perhaps. Yet, in the context of this otherwise doggedly realistic novel, the mutant children are a surprisingly compelling solution. After all, it is a reworking of the Noah myth. Mrs. Lessing, because of her careful analysis of modern society, sees fit to purge mankind in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Will to (Still) Believe | 8/5/1969 | See Source »

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