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THE FOUR-GATED CITY by Doris Lessing. 613 pages. Knopf. $7.50.
Fans of British Novelist Doris Lessing talk about a composite character called the Lessing Woman in much the same way as people once talked about the Hemingway Man. The Lessing Woman is a formidable female. She hasn't been to a university but she has read everything and remembers...
Mostly she is Martha Quest of Children of Violence, Anna Wulf of The Golden Notebook-or Doris Lessing, for virtually all of the author's writing is autobiographical. The Four-Gated City is the last of five novels in a Martha Quest series. The first four were set in...
Sir: In your article "The Year of the Novel" [Jan. 3], the title of Doris Lessing's new novel was inaccurately reported as 7999. The title of Mrs. Lessing's book is-and always has been-The Four-Gated City.
Women will be heard from in other ways. Doris Lessing, forsaking African memories and revelations of the inner world of the feminine intellect in London, plunges into fictional futurism with a book called 7999. Eudora Welty, the soft-voiced but enduring prose mistress of Mississippi, is bringing out her first...