![]() ![]() The idealism that led her to Communism is challenged by the corruption of the Stalin regime and her commitment to the party wanes. She struggles with her political beliefs. She realizes she has contradictions in her life and she separates them, unsuccessfully trying to minimize her anxiety. ![]() But it is fragmented because Anna is fragmented. The book jumps around in time and in perspective, making it fragmented and sometimes difficult to follow. "A black notebook, which is to do with Anna Wolf the writer Ī yellow notebook, in which I make stories out of my experience Īnd a blue notebook which tries to be a diary." But she recognizes the different aspects of herself and decides to capture each aspect in a separate notebook, organized (in her own words) as follows: ![]() Anna hopes to better understand herself by writing down all her thoughts. The journals are organized by topic, rather by time. Notebook tells Anna's story in a non-linear fashion, switching between a third person narrative of the life of Anna and her social circles and the contents of her four journals. In Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, protagonist Anna Wulf serves as a surrogate for Lessing, expressing the philosophies and doubts of the author And the fictional Wulf is a writer who injects herself into the Ella - the protagonist of her own novel. ![]()
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