Discusses the use of pseudonyms by Doris Lessing, Julian Barnes, Joyce Carol Oates and Gore Vidal.

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Coetzee, Joan Didion, Tadeusz Konwicki, Aleksandar Hemon, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lorrie Moore, Doris Lessing, Patrick Chamoiseau, to name a few.

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One Mexican bookseller is doing a brisk trade with piles of Doris Lessing novels, books on Yoga and even Alan Greenspan's autobiography.

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"If you're going to write to a formula of some kind the writing is dead, which we know by having seen it so often, " Lessing says.

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The British author Doris Lessing is even more emphatic.

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This collection of work by Doris Lessing features three dozen of the Nobel Prize-winner's short stories, most of them, as novelist Margaret Drabble points out in her introduction, written in the realistic tradition set by Chekhov and D.

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Reading these powerful stories, you recognize that Lessing knows as much, if not more, about the modern world than just about any writer alive and she conveys it all to us with necessary force and appropriate celerity.

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Covering a geographic range from England to Africa (the author's home continent for most of her early years), Lessing's stories achieve a cumulative power, delivering us news about the pleasures and costs of love, marriage, politics and social life.

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