10/13/07
Finally, Lessing
That Doris Lessing, at the age of 88, has at last won the
Nobel Prize for literature is a cause for celebration, and for allowing that
some things, at least, however unexpectedly, can finally go right in this
world. Why it took the Nobel Committee so long to come to a correct conclusion
about her achievement is the remaining mystery. It has, to her many readers,
been an open secret for decades she is simply one of the world's most
commanding writers, with a range of theme, material, style and genre no other
writer in English can match.
