Dorris Lessig, once a Nobel Prize laureate, died today leaving behind a passion for exploding myths, especially her own. A former Communist, until 1956, she confessed in 2008:
Communists, she now believes, are ‘murderers with a clear conscience’. But it took her a long time to get there. ‘Yes I called Marxism “the sweetest dream” in one of my books. Then I discovered it was all a load of old socks. It seems incredible now that quite intelligent people believed in it all. What doubts there were were expressed in sly jokes. The jokes contradicted everything we believed in. We used to joke about how we were wrong about everything.’
via Doris Lessing: her last Telegraph interview – Telegraph.
She is best known for her Golden Notebook novel, a postmodern feminist manifesto in earnest, written in 1962, long before the fads and fashions changed the meaning of both words. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/lessing_life.shtml
