Abstract
The Golden Notebook, written by the well-known contemporary British woman writer Doris Lessing, is a controversial novel ever since its publication. The novel’s “clip” structure and the plot of fiction make the reader feel a bit confused. As a female writer, she maintains her concern in the female issues; and she does it very well in using this issue as a vent through which the panorama of the current society is depicted, especially people’s psychological crisis which is becoming more and more serious nowadays. This thesis is attempted to, on the basis of its text, further interpret its theme and connotation, and focus on the two main problems—alienation and isolation—that Lessing endeavors to present in this novel.
Highlights
The most considerable single work by an English author in the 1960s has been done by Doris Lessing, in The Golden Notebook (1962)
The Golden Notebook does belong to the feminist canon but it is a part of the psychosocial nature of the woman as a human being
In The Golden notebook, the heroine has lived through the same years of frustration and disillusionment and experienced the same restlessness, but the fact that her formative years were spent in Africa gave her a certain detachment, strengthened by the disciplined viewpoint which she gained during her period of attachment to the Communist Party
Summary
The most considerable single work by an English author in the 1960s has been done by Doris Lessing, in The Golden Notebook (1962). Being able to name a new experience is the first necessary step towards understanding it, and the necessity of finding a new vocabulary for one’s new social being is a key emphasis in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook It is a novel about the kind of political crack-up they’ve been witnessing. It’s a crystallization of the intellectual rottenness of the Party that the cry of the nineteenth-century humanism, courage against odds, truth against lies, should be used to defend the publication of a lousy lying book by a communist firm which will risk nothing at all by publishing it, no even a reputation for integrity.” (237) Her sense of this fragmentation is such as to demand of her a more coherent, a more unifying life than has been possible through dedication to communism. She must move on to a further level of commitment, that of an open and free acknowledgement of her sexual nature, before she is able to move to what I believe is her ultimate and most lasting commitment, to verbal communication through writing for a public audience
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