in an unfashionably essentialist way, a feminist writer: struggling to conceptualise what makes a woman's experience. That struggle, expressed in profoundly unorthodox genres--whether a painstaking record of daily consciousness or a fantasia on the impossibility of a man-free society--is necessary because Lessing understands only too well the paradox that even an intellect such as hers has been formed in an asymmetric, gendered society. from Fiona Sampson: The Guardian: Lessing's Nobel is about more than words
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