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DORIS LESSING (1919-2013) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - first novel
      - attacked the colour bar
      - relationship between a white woman and his black servant
  - - - 5 novels
      - the story of Martha Quest from her childhood in Rhodesia, her adolescence and maturity in post-war London, to an apocalyptic ecological disaster in the year 2000
  - - - experimentation: the multiple selves of a woman writer confronted the situation of the late 1950s and early 1960s
      - issues of the Sixties and the condition of women
  - - - 5 novels
      - interest in science fiction and in the mental condition of people in a technological society
      - retelling of the story of our planet from its beginnings to the present day
      - devices of science fantasy: kings, queens, marriages
  - - - a family saga and an indictment of left-wing politics in the Sixties
  - - - the life of her parents marked by WWI
- - - - irresponsible, celebrity of the hard left, absent father, indifferent to individual pain
      - Lessing attacks career politicians speaking only with political clichés, because language can become a dangerous tool
    - - brought up before WWI, she gradually comes into contact with Frances
    - - an abandoned mother who becomes a 'house-mother'
    - - pursues her sweetest dream in Africa