RIP Doris Lessing

[Simon Bryquer]

She became very good friends with Idries Shah (author of 'The Sufis' ) around 1964 and he  became a great influence on her life and work.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Kohut 
  To: kelber at mindspring.com ; pynchon-l at waste.org 
  Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 3:58 PM
  Subject: Re: RIP Doris Lessing


  A friend, male, who went to London to meet her, said the force of her personality was palpable....Somewhat dismissed The Golden Notebook, her best known and cited by The Swedish Academy....said it was largely written out of a crush on a 'communist"....who I think was the now-forgotten---his novels are shapeless, Clancy Siegel....(I loved Going Away anyway, more than I ever did On The Road)...

  I have been feeling vicarious fear all day as the memory of her story of the boy who risked his life to swim thru an underwater rock tunnel comes back to me......then there's To Room 19, this way madness lies....

  In her autobio she writes of her young bohemian days in London that there was ALWAYS a pot of stew cooking---for whoever showed up, flopped over, etc.....I read this in the middle of my boring middle age and knew too late it was what I had always wanted.....



  On Sunday, November 17, 2013 3:40 PM, "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/18/books/doris-lessing-novelist-who-won-2007-nobel-is-dead-at-94.html?_r=0&hp&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1384718978-fn4U4mM+gQ31XHNr85MWzw
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