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An incoherent man is found wandering the streets of London, at the start of Doris Lessing’s brilliant and disturbing novel about madness and release.”A brilliant, disturbing book...her most adventurous, imaginative experiment. She allows her didactic, satirical ideas about our civilization memorable expression.” - TLSLessing imagines the fantastical ‘inner-space’ life of an amnesiac, Charles Watkins. A Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, he has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous psychological adventure that takes him from a spinning raft in the Atlantic to a ruined stone city on a tropical island to an outer-space journey through singing planets. As he travels in his mind through memory and the farther reaches of imagination, his doctors try to subdue him with ever more powerful drugs in a competition for his soul. In this provocative novel, Lessing takes us on a harrowing voyage into the rarely glimpsed territory of the inner mind..”Doris Lessing breaks through the semantic barrier into speculative areas of psychic geography like some returned tra

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Author

Lessing, Doris

Publisher

National Geographic Books

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394746623

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Science Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (91 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14