An essential and definitive collection of the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s finest essays, reviews, reminiscences and interviews from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
`The novelist talks as an individual to individuals, in a small personal voice. In an age of committee art, public art, people may begin to feel again a need for the small personal voice; and this will feed confidence into writers and, with confidence because of the knowledge of being needed, the warmth and humanity, and love of people which is essential for a great age of literature.’
In this collection of her non-fiction, Lessing’s own life and work are the subject of a number of pieces, as are fellow writers such as Isak Dinesen and Kurt Vonnegut. There are essays on Malcolm X and Sufism, discussions of the responsibility of the artist, thoughts on her exile from Southern Rhodesia, and a fascinating memoir of her fraught relationship with her mother.
Lit throughout by Doris Lessing's desire for truth-telling, `A Small Personal Voice’ is both an important collection of writings by and a self-portrait of one of the most significant writers of the past century.
- ISBN13 9780007518319
- Publish Date 28 November 2013 (first published 12 July 1975)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Flamingo
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 192
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk