DORIS LESSING
Time Bites
Views and Reviews
CONTENTS
3 Carlyle’s House: Newly discovered pieces by Virginia Woolf
6 Kalila and Dimna – The Fables of Bidpai
7 Speech at Vigo on getting the Prince of Asturias Prize 2002
9 The Forgotten Soldier, Guy Sajer
10 Preface to Ecclesiastes, King James Version
12 The Amazing Victorian: A Life of George Meredith
14 ‘Now You See Her, Now You Don’t’
15 Stendhal’s Memoirs of an Egotist
16 Lost Civilisations of the Stone Age
18 A reissue of The Golden Notebook
22 William Philips, who died in 2002
24 Niccolo` Tucci’s Before My Time
31 Preface for the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook 2003
35 The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, Nirad C. Chaudhuri
37 Professor Martens’ Departure
40 Knowing How to Know: A Practical Philosophy in the Sufi Tradition
42 East meets West: The Elephant in the Dark
43 ‘What novel or novels prompted your own political awakening?’
44 The most significant book to come out of Africa
46 The Ice Palace: Frozen secrets stranded in a waterfall
47 Problems, Myths and Stories
49 The Past is Myself, Christabel Bielenberg
54 Dancing with Cuba, Alma Guillermoprieto