The Golden Notebook
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"And what about us? Free, we say, yet the truth is that they get erections when they're with a woman they don't give a damn about, but we don't have an orgasm unless we love him." --Doris Lessing in The Golden Notebook (1962) |
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The Golden Notebook is a 1962 novel by British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing. This book, as well as the couple that followed it, enters the realm of what Margaret Drabble in The Oxford Companion to English Literature has called Lessing's "inner space fiction", her work that explores mental and societal breakdown. The book also contains a powerful anti-war and anti-Stalinist message, an extended analysis of communism and the Communist Party in England from the 1930s to the 1950s, and a famed examination of the budding sexual and women's liberation movements. The Golden Notebook has been translated into a number of other languages.
Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
