![]() Lessing and her fellow writers of fiction fleshed out the gaps in the news reports. Coetzee, she told me shocking stories about human conditions half a world away from my sunny middle-class neighborhood, eye-opening scenes of southern Africa, of men and women, of race and apartheid. ![]() “That’s what people really want, if they’re telling the truth.”īut to me, as a teenager in suburban California, Lessing opened another door too. ![]() Lessing’s signature work, “The Golden Notebook,” Murphy wrote, suggested that humanity, male and female, is driven by a common yearning: “Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who would really understand me, who’d be kind to me,” one of the characters said. ![]() Times’ Kim Murphy wrote in Lessing’s obituary, her “richly imagined, scathingly perceptive novels helped define early feminism and the doomed idealism of the postwar generation.” Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing, who died this week at 94, is best known, and appropriately so, as a ground-breaking feminist writer. ![]()
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