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Doris Lessing - A Life Behind the Scenes - The Files of the British Intelligence Service MI5 (Hardcover, New edition)
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Doris Lessing - A Life Behind the Scenes - The Files of the British Intelligence Service MI5 (Hardcover, New edition)
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In March 1949 the security service MI5 received notice of a suspect
person about to enter Britain and went to great pains to keep her
under surveillance. This person was the author Doris Lessing. She
would eventually go on to win the Nobel Prize for literature as an
"epicist ... who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has
subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". And it was precisely
this scrutiny that troubled the guardians of the status quo.
Lessing grew up in colonial Rhodesia and hated the scorn with which
the colonists treated the native population. She worked tirelessly
for a more just society and this drove her into support for
communism. But a communist, as one of her fictional characters
says, "is hated, despised, feared and hunted". Peter Raina's book,
reproducing the secret files kept on Lessing, shows that this was
largely true, even though her emphasis in these troubled times was
always on Peace. Lessing was eventually disillusioned by communism,
and sought a better understanding of human relations than
Soviet-conforming cliches could provide. However, her understanding
was much enriched by the experiences of her activism and knowledge
of the opposition it aroused. The secret files show how strongly
Lessing followed her convictions and throw new light on how her
perceptions of society evolved. Peter Raina elucidates this in a
short Introduction and an Epilogue discussing aspects of her
writings.
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