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Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in the blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna tries to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.
Doris Lessing's searing and relentless self-probing and analysis of what it was to be an intelligent, thoughtful woman in the chaos of post-war London is as thought-provoking and readable today as when it was written. One wonders how a dialogue between Doris and Henry Miller might have been (perhaps she had one?) or Lawrence Durrell. They too broke boundaries in style and expression in pursuit of the big existential questions around meaning, love, justice, equality, loneliness and sanity, but seen through a man's lens.Doris was, as I understand it, disappointed that the book was seized upon and claimed as a feminist tract. Indeed. For it's subject matter is much bigger than that.
