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A MAN AND TWO WOMEN by Doris Lessing. 316 pages. Simon & Schuster. $5.
Women are always serious about love, but Doris Lessing is more than serious: she is downright glum or defeatist. She writes about people broken in love with the doom-laden tones of a Thomas Hardy telling of the time of the breaking of nations.
The 19 stories in this collection are so many small tragedies. Far from being mere slices of life, or glimpses of fantasy or of psychological freaks, they demonstrate once again that the short story is not only for light jugglery. The publishers invoke the names of Mary McCarthy and Simone...
By and large the freshmen are not as troubled by isolation as are the seniors. But if there is such a thing as the representative Sarah Lawrence girl, she consider herself fully a woman by her senior year. More likely than not, she has had an affair, perhaps in Europe...
No such distinction was possible before the emancipation of European Jewry from the ghettos between 1790 and the 1840s. Until then, the Jew lived in an insulated community that ensured conformance to tradition. Emancipation freed the Jew from the confines of community, and coming in contact with the ideas of...