Abstract
For several decades after Doris Lessing and Clancy Sigal parted as lovers, Sigal continued to draw extensively on aspects of their relationship for his fictional and dramatic writing. One might say that, whatever Lessing’s overly zealous literary appropriations of aspects of Sigal’s character and their relationship during their time together, Sigal more than got his own back, creating multiple fictionalized versions of Lessing beginning before or soon after their separation in 1960 and continuing over the next 30-plus years. It took him considerably longer than it did Lessing to get the relationship out of his system—and to exhaust its literary possibilities. While Clancy Sigal was the model for the fictitious Saul Green of The Golden Notebook and Dave Miller of Play with a Tiger, Doris Lessing in turn inspired several of Sigal’s characters who resemble—with varying degrees of exaggeration, oversimplification, and parody—Doris Lessing. It is instructive for readers to see the fun house mirror distortions of Sigal’s former lover as his literary skill and comic gifts developed.
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