Forthcoming Doris Lessing Book

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I enjoyed her impressions of Ginsburg and some other unnamed Beats she met with in London:

"They turned up in London, a whole lot of them, and I went to meet them," she recalls. "I thought they were extremely likable, but this isn't how they wanted to be seen. I thought then, and I think I was right, that they weren't as frightening and as shocking as they wanted to be. They were mostly middle-class people trying to be annoying."

The Golden Notebook is one of my favorite books, and the Children of Violence books were great, but I could never get into her sci-fi or post sci-fi books.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 9, 2006 5:45 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Forthcoming Doris Lessing Book
>
>Has she grown Houellebecqish?
>
>"I saw a science magazine which said that the basic human type is female and 
>that men came along afterward," she explains. "You have an original 
>community of females, on a seashore, very conventional. Then, one gives 
>birth to a baby boy and somehow the boy manages to grow up.
>
>"So I've written a story based on this. I have it all told by a literary 
>Roman senator - an aristocrat, very reactionary - discussing the very 
>violent revolutionary, and evolutionary, changes.
>
>"I noticed that my typist at the publishing house was shocked by some of the 
>words I used. I can't wait to see what people make of it. Some people will 
>hate every word of it; it's not politically correct."
>
>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/artandlife/1404AP_Books_Doris_Lessing.html
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