El laboratorio de la novela: instrumentos y pruebas de una voz autoral en The Golden Notebook, de Doris Lessing

Abstract

This paper offers a feminist reading of The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing, through narrative theories focused on the metafictional structure of texts and the narrator’s role as author of that very novel. The analysis of paratexts—which evince different narrative levels within the novel—aims to reveal the narrator’s authorial exercise, characterized by the search of an adequate language to write her own story. This narratological approach goes deep into the structural complexity of this novel, interwoven by several narrative frames and the practice of different authorial voices directly committed to the act of writing.