by Doris Lessing · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586037959
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«The Golden Notebook» is the novel by Doris Lessing, published by Panther in paperback (640 pages, in English).
Anna Wulf, a divorced writer in 1950s London, tries to order her life in four notebooks: black for writing, red for politics, yellow for emotions, and blue for everyday life. The golden notebook, which gives the novel its title, aims to integrate these facets while she struggles with creative block.
Originally published in 1962, this edition appeared in 1973 and received the Prix Médicis étranger in 1976.
For those seeking a twentieth-century narrative classic with a feminist perspective and a political backdrop.
Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Lessing was born to British parents in Qajar Iran, where she lived until she was 6 in 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia, where she remained until moving to London, England, in 1949. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
