Unwritten Novels
Nobel-winning novelist Doris Lessing died last weekend at the age of 94. She published more than 50 works in her lifetime, but she also had a deep imaginative grasp of books that did not exist. In this 1990 essay, she lists and dwells on subjects (Karl Marx's home life, committee rooms) that "have never found a novelist."
Nobel-winning novelist Doris Lessing died last weekend at the age of 94. She published more than 50 works in her lifetime, but she also had a deep imaginative grasp of books that did not exist. In this 1990 essay, she lists and dwells on subjects (Karl Marx's home life, committee rooms) that "have never found a novelist."