shriber
2007-10-14 20:08:03
The Golden Notebooks was and remains an anti-Communist (anti-totalitarian book). It is only secondarily a “feminist” novel.
If one doubts Lessing’s commitment to the anti-Totalitarian cause let him read “The Good Terrorist” as well as this op-ed piece in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/opinion/13lessing.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The New York Times would like to see her as a “feminist” author but her own words belie this easy label.
