The Theme of Fragmentation in the Golden Book by Dorris Lessing

Dr. Kaushal Kishore Sharma

Fragmentation, Dorris Lessing, The Golden Book, Literature.

Amongst many of the themes ,including  colonialism, communism feminism,apartheid,sexuality and others ,that  are found  in the fiction  of Nobel laureate  Dorris  May Lessing the theme of fragmentation has remained the forte and favorite of the author who possess a natural vividness to reflect it in almost all of her works. The present paper is a humble attempt to explore fragmentation in the novel The Golden Book hailed as the “inner space fiction of Lessing by Margaret Drabble in The Oxford companion to English Literature. The mental and societal breakdown that forms the core of the novel will be discussed at length in the paper.