Showing posts with label Doris Lessing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doris Lessing. Show all posts

Saturday, October 01, 2011

Sometimes Lessing is less:
Doris Lessing and the Afghans

Doris Lessing

One of more annoying features of modern life is the writer who becomes involved in a worthwhile cause and then uses it has a platform to pontificate about stuff they know little about. A classic example is Doris Lessing. Now Doris Lessing is a very well known writer who in 2007 won the Nobel Prize for literature. Unfortunately Doris Lessing aside from writing well written books has also shown a less than sterling intellectual sense about certain matters.1