Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing

Feigel, Lara

ISBN 10: 1635570956 / ISBN 13: 9781635570953

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1635570956
• ISBN 13: 9781635570953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

An intense exploration of the life and works of Doris Lessing and how their themes are reflected in the writer's own life.

Free Woman begins at a wedding and ends in the African bush. This is a memoir of Feigel's own journey as a writer, which becomes enmeshed with that of Doris Lessing. Co-opting a dead novelist into an obsessive, ambivalent relationship, Feigel sets about learning from her about how to live.

Rereading The Golden Notebook in her midthirties, shortly after Doris Lessing's death, Lara Feigel discovered that Lessing was a writer who spoke directly to her about her experiences as a woman, writer, and mother in a way that no other novelist had done. At a time when she was dissatisfied with the constraints that she felt she and her generation seemed to accept blindly, Feigel was enticed particularly by Lessing's vision of freedom.

Part memoir, part biography, and part literary criticism, Free Woman is an examination of Lessing's life and work, structured as a series of nine investigations of sexual, psychological, intellectual, and political freedom. Feigel combines incisive writing, elegant exploration, and intimate revelations with a delicate sensitivity to relationships (both real and in literature) in times of great stress to mesmerizing effect.

About the Author

Lara Feigel is a Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at King's College London. She is the author of four previous works of non-fiction: Literature, Cinema and Politics, 1930-1945 (2009), The Love-charm of Bombs (2013), The Bitter Taste of Victory (2016) and, most recently, Free Woman (2018), as well as one novel, The Group (2020). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and writes regularly for the Guardian and other publications. Lara lives in Oxfordshire.

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