Another Win for Feminists: Doris Lessing
3 years ago I received 5 books as a gift from a friend living in Norway; among these books was one I adored so much though the writer was a perfect stranger for me then; “The Golden Notebook” was the name of the novel and the writer was Doris Lessing. The novel dazzled me because it portrays in a gripping manner the women’s dream to break free from patriarchal and social bounds and live freely. From then on I started reading this writer regularly and wonder from time to time why she is not that famous.
Last Thursday October 11, the Swedish Academy in Stockholm announced Doris Lessing, 88, as the new winner of Nobel Prize for literature. She was described as “that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny.” For me when I heard the exciting news, I swear to God I felt as if I were the one who won that prize.
Lessing’s strongest legacy may be that she inspired a generation of feminists with her breakthrough novel, “The Golden Notebook.” In its citation, the Swedish Academy said: “The burgeoning feminist movement saw it as a pioneering work, and it belongs to the handful of books that informed the 20th-century view of the male-female relationship.”
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