Free Woman

Resumen del libro

How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Re-reading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, shortly after Doris Lessing's death, Lara Feigel discovered that Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, a writer, and a mother in a way that no other novelist had done. At a time when she was dissatisfied with the conventions of her own life, Feigel was enticed by Lessing's vision of freedom. Free Woman is essential reading for anyone whose life has been changed by books or has questioned the structures by which they live.

Feigel tells Lessing's own story, veering between admiration and fury at the choices Lessing made. At the same time, she scrutinises motherhood, marriage and sexual relationships with an unusually acute gaze. And in the process she conducts a dazzling investigation into the joys and costs of sexual, psychological, intellectual and political freedom.

This is a genre-defying book: at once a meditation on life and literature and a daring act of self-exposure.

Biografía del autor

Lara Feigel es doctora en Letras por la Universidad de Sussex y profesora en el King" s College de Londres. Como historiadora de la cultura y crítica literaria, sus trabajos se centran en la literatura, el arte y la historia política de los años treinta y la segunda guerra mundial. Es autora de Literature, Cinema and Politics, 1930-1945 y The Love Charm of Bombs y colabora en medios como The Guardian, Prospect o History Today.