Nevertheless, The Golden Notebook has retained a great deal of power, chiefly due to its often brutal honesty and the sheer variation and sweep of its prose. The elements that made the book remarkable when it first appeared-extremely candid sexual and psychological descriptions of its characters and a fractured, postmodern structure-are no longer shocking. Anna is battling writer's block, and, it often seems, the damaging chaos of life itself. Doris Lessing's novel deconstructs the life of Anna Wulf, a sometime-Communist and a deeply leftist writer living in postwar London with her small daughter. Much to its author's chagrin, The Golden Notebook instantly became a staple of the feminist movement when it was published in 1962.
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