Putting the Questions Differently

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Doris Lessing. Putting the Questions Differently

Putting the Questions Differently

Contents

Introduction

Chronology

Talking as a Person Roy Newquist

The Inadequacy of the Imagination Jonah Raskin

Learning to Put the Questions Differently Studs Terkel

One Keeps Going Joyce Carol Oates

The Capacity to Look at a Situation Coolly Josephine Hendin

Creating Your Own Demand Minda Bikman

Testimony to Mysticism Nissa Torrents

The Need to Tell Stories Christopher Bigsby

Writing as Time Runs Out Michael Dean

Running Through Stories in My Mind Michael Thorpe

Placing Their Fingers on the Wounds of Our Times Margarete von Schwarzkopf

Breaking Down These Forms Stephen Gray

Acknowledging a New Frontier Eve Bertelsen

The Habit of Observing Francois-Olivier Rousseau

Caged by the Experts Thomas Frick

Living in Catastrophe Brian Aldiss

Watching the Angry and Destructive Hordes Go Past Claire Tomalin

Drawn to a Type of Landscape Sedge Thomson

A Writer Is Not a Professor Jean-Maurice de Montremy

The Older I Get, the Less I Believe Tan Gim Ean and Others

Unexamined Mental Attitudes Left Behind by Communism Edith Kurzweil

Reporting from the Terrain of the Mind Nigel Forde

Voice of England, Voice of Africa Michael Upchurch

Describing This Beautiful and Nasty Planet Earl G. Ingersoll

Index

I. DORIS LESSING

II. GENERAL INDEX

About the Author

Also by the Author

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Copyright

About the Publisher

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Interviews with Doris Lessing

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Lessing: Yes, what happens is that Martha lives in this house with Lynda who has this label slapped on her: Lynda’s the nutty one, she’s mad. But Martha, by being with Lynda, begins to understand that what Lynda is doing is experiencing things in a different way. I try to explore what certain kinds of madness are. I’m inclined to think that schizophrenia is not madness at all. We’ve been dogmatic about this. I don’t want to say that schizophrenia is just this; I don’t like this business of saying something is only that.

Terkel: I’m fascinated by this character Lynda.

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