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Article: Lessing and the insoluble moral paradox
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 10, 1988
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NEW YORK In her long and distinguished career, novelist Doris
Lessing has made a habit of shaking up readers.
Novels such as The Golden Notebook and The Four-Gated City
probed the painful personal and political dilemmas of mid-20th
century life in blunt, sometimes angry prose that seemed to say, "All
right, what are you going to do about it?" Readers strong enough to
stand up to this were given a new development to ponder when Lessing
turned to "space fiction" in her five-volume "Canopus in Argo"
series.
In fiction and non-fiction alike, the 69-year-old author has
gazed steadily at conflicts and contradictions most of us would
prefer to ignore, often dismaying her admirers by her ...