![]() ![]() Out of “fear of chaos, formlessness -of breakdown,” she decides to keep four notebooks, one for each component of her life -black for her experiences in Africa, red for current politics, yellow for a fictionalized version of herself, and blue for a diary. ![]() Laboring against a writing block, following the immense success of her autobiographical debut novel about a group of Communists in colonial Africa, Anna struggles to find a way to integrate the multiple selves that fragment her personality and make her life unbearably painful. It is the story of Anna Wulf, a writer and single woman, who lives with her young daughter in a flat, occasionally renting out a room, less for the income than out of a reflex of social obligation. So begins Doris Lessing’s most famous novel, published in 1962, and now considered one of the major works of twentieth-century literature. “The two women were alone in the London flat.” Yet, these moments have been so powerful, like the rapid illuminations of a dream that remain with one waking, that what I have learned will be part of how I experience life until I die.” -Anna Wulf in The Golden Notebook ![]() “Knowing was an ‘illumination.’ During the last weeks of craziness and timelessness I’ve had these moments of ‘knowing’ one after the other, yet there is no way of putting this sort of knowledge into words. ![]()
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