Forthcoming Doris Lessing Book

[Charles Albert]

Luc Sante offers a funny take on Houellebecq in a recent NYRB article on
Lovercraft...


love,
cfa

On 10/9/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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