Book the golden notebook5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the story of Anna Wulf, a writer and single woman, who lives with her young daughter in a flat, occasionally renting out a room, less for the income than out of a reflex of social obligation. ![]() So begins Doris Lessing’s most famous novel, published in 1962, and now considered one of the major works of twentieth-century literature. “The two women were alone in the London flat.” Yet, these moments have been so powerful, like the rapid illuminations of a dream that remain with one waking, that what I have learned will be part of how I experience life until I die.” -Anna Wulf in The Golden Notebook “Knowing was an ‘illumination.’ During the last weeks of craziness and timelessness I’ve had these moments of ‘knowing’ one after the other, yet there is no way of putting this sort of knowledge into words. ![]()
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