The Element of Life and Creation as it lurks in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook

Abstract

Abstract

Doris Lessing; the Nobel Laureate of literature 2007, is one of those most powerful and significant novelists of the twentieth and twenty first century who dominated the post-war English and has written on various themes like feminism, the battle of the sexes, individuals in search of wholeness, cultural clashes, racial discrimination and the dangers of science and technology. Apart from contributing to the contemporary themes, she has also placed herself successfully to be a power bearer of life and creation as an author. It is an author who gives life and sense to his or her characters literally and while doing so transfers some events, experiences and characteristics of his or her own self to characters, which exists in the work either in lurking or exposed form and The Golden Notebook is one of the masterpieces of Lessing in which such element of life and creation lurks till unveiled and this paper is an attempt for the same.