If a Nobel Prize in Literature that fascinates me that is Doris lessing. to write science fiction with a certain profusion (the one that entails closing a whole CiFi series like Canopus in Argos), it is not always a great postulate for the Nobel Prize in literature that tends to despise this and other genres. So double credit to this British writer of Iranian origin.
Although, considering the global of his work (around 50 books), science fiction takes on the role of the anecdotal and the less anecdotal in terms of demonstrating a great narrative capacity.
The most common themes of Doris Lessing address a critical realism at the same time constructive and hopeful between a notable disenchantment. A sum of readings that remain as a kind of moral that tries to convince us of good over evil.
Doris wrote about very different scenarios that she met in life thanks to her traveling spirit. From his political disenchantment aboard the suggestive communist approaches and his inability to materialize to the humanitarian crises in Africa.
A writer who, from the novel, left a clear example of an overwhelming humanism, as well as an incomparable chronicle of the time that she had to live.
Top 3 best Doris Lessing novels
Canopus in Argos
Being who I am, a devotee of the science fiction genre, I see myself in the obligation to position this series of novels in the first position of the ranking.
With the particularity that this work, from the hands of someone as human as Doris, transcends simple science fiction as an entertainment genre and becomes a sociological approach.
We travel to an indeterminate future time. Canopus is an alien civilization that knows our Earth very well, from these inhabitants of other places in the cosmos, and in each of the five novels that make up the series a secret history of our planet is described thanks to which we can wander, suppose, raise… A real delight turned into a high-flying literary adventure.
The golden notebook
For the general public, this will probably be Doris Lessing's best novel. A story drawn between experiences linked to the fantasy of the narrative proposal, of the notebooks that Anna Wulf writes in her notebooks, as communicating parts or vessels of her essence, of what she was, of what she denied being, of what she is and what I would like to become.
Beyond the marked feminist accent, we can all see ourselves identified in the character, marked by that intention to establish an order, an identity among so many facets that are developed in a lifetime.
Only, the most precious notebook, that golden notebook where Ana Wulf would like to write her most transcendental pages, must be a synthesis towards the uniform account of her own life.
Memoirs of a survivor
A metaphor about fears and frustrations, more evident than ever when the protagonist is alone, in the care of a 12-year-old girl. The metaphor is the very city in which the woman and her daughter live.
Outside, chaos reigns, violence and misery occupy the entire worldly existence from outside the house of the two women. And yet you have to go out there and face all that irrational violence, that jungle of the strongest. It's about surviving ...
