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Lessing has Richard say some very unpleasant misogynist things about Hannah , indeed the whole last quarter of the book has characters defaming feminism and extolling blessed motherhood.

It about this point I think, that I realised that all the male characters seem flawed in the same way - they are all, despite being successful in many ways , deeply inadequate at some level, all need propping up by women, not least in the area of ego and self worth. Heaven knows the female characters have flaws too, but these all seem different from each other , more varied, more complex.

A very interesting read, as is probably evident , I am still personally affected by it! I have just finished the first volume in this book, entitled "The Diary of a Good Neighbour". I was given it by a friend who implored me to read it, saying "this is an important book". A frank, face-to-face encounter with old age and dying through the eyes of the narrator, Janna Somers the Jane Somers of the title , which leaves the reader reeling with the brutal honesty of some of the descriptions.

The passage where Janna comes across the old lady, Maudie, standing in her kitch I have just finished the first volume in this book, entitled "The Diary of a Good Neighbour". The passage where Janna comes across the old lady, Maudie, standing in her kitchen having just soiled herself will stay with me for a long time. No euphemisms are used, and this is not merely to somehow titillate the reader with shocking, taboo-breaking writing, but also to make us sit up, take notice, realise that our society has dehumanised old age to the point that we see a dirty old woman as simply that - as something disgusting.

And yet, through Janna's eyes, we get to know Maudie. We hear her stories of her life as a milliner, as a young bride and mother, and we see that this "old crone" is a person who loves, lives and breathes like us. That we, one day, will become Maudie. The most effecting passage for me is near the end, as this reminded me shamefully, of how I felt when my own grandmother seemed to be "refusing to die". Janna is musing over the fact that Maudie is refusing to let go and she says: But of course I know that is quite wrong.

What I think now is, it is possible that what sets the pace of dying is not the body, not that great lump inside her stomach, getting bigger with every breath, but the need of the Maudie who is not dying to adjust - to what? Who can know what enormous processes are going on there, behind Maudie's hanging head, her sullen eyes?

I think she will die when those processes are accomplished. And that is why I would never advocate euthanasia, or not at least without a thousand safeguards. The need of the watchers, the next of kin, the nearest and dearest, is that the poor sufferer should die as soon as possible, because the strain of it all is so awful. But is it possible that it is not nearly so bad for the dying as for those who watch?

The Diary of a Good Neighbour by Doris Lessing

So it seems Doris Lessing wrote and published this under a fake name as a test. I'd like to think that had I read this then I would have immediately recognizes her. There's a reason I used to idolize her and I loved the chance to read a new book by her, or I should say one that escaped me. This is a powerful book, and also close to home; describing the plans the elderly have to make in moving thru your own house is the same for the disabled, which I am. I route everything so I take the least pos So it seems Doris Lessing wrote and published this under a fake name as a test.

I route everything so I take the least possible steps. Of course being Lessing there was a lot more than this, she always matches my own reflections on modern life and relationships. Jun 18, Azza Raslan rated it it was amazing. Excellent - It changed my life and influenced forever the way I look at older people. Aug 19, A. Iban en parejas o en grupos, hablaban. La vida perfecta que Janna cree haber construido, comienza a perder estabilidad cuando, casualmente, conoce a Maudie Fowler, una nonagenaria iracunda, orgullosa y solitaria.

Imposible salir ileso de esta lectura. Sep 06, Jennifer rated it liked it. These are two novels by Lessing first published pseudonymously with the same main character, packaged together. I much preferred "Diary of a Good Neighbor," which is the story of how a middle-aged woman who finds herself drawn into the lives of some elderly and dying women.

Perhaps it's because the themes of aging and mortality are less dated, and the issues she struggles with more universal. They meet and walk around the city, never even kissing, and it's portrayed as very romantic, and it's so very different from anything I recognize as a relationship that I found it mostly confusing. Considering how everything kind of falls apart when they do start to learn more about each other, perhaps Lessing meant for that to be the impression. Meanwhile, Jane has to deal with her niece moving in with her--the segments with her confused, vague, utterly narcissistic niece struck me much more than her romance--a good reminder that people at the beginning of adulthood have always been rather lost and rudderless, recent moaning about "millennials" be damned.

Both stories deal with aging at different levels of development--the shift from adolescence to adulthood, and perils of middle age both Jane and her lover are half in love with who they were rather than who they are and the transition toward death. Interesting, delicate, nuanced, but in some ways I feel like the characters are from a stranger and more distant culture than Jane Austen's characters.

Feb 20, Lola rated it really liked it. I grew up surrounded by old people. Age, its frailties and complexities, as addressed by Ms. Lessing have never really fazed me. This, I realize, is an immense advantage. I was moved by how Ms. Lessing placed her narrator in the middle of it all, and how real it all had to become to her while remaining inexplicable to the younger people who surround her. Did I like Jane Somers when I was done with these novels? I saw in her the template, the beginning of Maudie, Eliza, Annie Maybe, but I don't think it yet feels entirely real to her.

A lot of loose threads are left dangling at the end of each diary. While Jane Somers has told us over and over how much care she takes to preserve a certain image, how much pleasure she derives from taking so much care, we also see that she starts letting the control slip.

Didn't we see this with Maudie? Didn't we see it with Eliza and Annie? Every character is about the control they can have over their surroundings, except those who are totally incapable of any kind of control Kate, Annie, Maudie I don't know if a young person will "get" this book as much as someone who has passed a certain point would. As I said, age and its quirks, difficulties, etc.

Now, as I get older, there is a nearness to this that makes it resonate. I propose to re-read this in a few years Jun 02, Fernanda rated it it was amazing Shelves: Me siento triste, muy triste. La historia se centra en Janna, en sus Es una mujer pulcra, con clase, exitosa, con un gran trabajo en una revista y un gran problema: No puede lidiar con la fealdad del mundo ni sus dificultades.

Tras conocerse estos dos personajes colisionan, se envuelven, se tienen la una a la otra y entonces Janna se transforma, posiblemente por la culpa de no haberlo hecho con su madre, pero lo sabe y no piensa en ello, no le importa. Jan 07, Anne Tucker rated it it was amazing. I love how she writes, clear and articulate she is a real feminist.

Nov 19, Jayanna Roy-Bachman rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: It is out of print so it will be hard to find. It looks at old age in a way that is realistic and understanding. Feb 21, Jane Somers added it. It's very strange to read a book where you share a name with the protagonist. I've had it on my shelf for many years, but finally picked it up and read it. I probably wouldn't have been ready to read about her something life before now, and at first I found her quite relatable.

By the end, though, I was really ready to be done. The book was written in , the year I graduated from college, was married, and had my first child. It is amazing to see the world as it was at that time, and some o It's very strange to read a book where you share a name with the protagonist. It is amazing to see the world as it was at that time, and some of the attitudes about women, race, and disability were pretty offensive. Particularly the reference to a young man with Down Syndrome as "an idiot.

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Apparently she did this to draw attention to the difficulty of getting published not only for an unknown author but for a woman writing in the personal, confessional vein. At the start of the first book, we find Jane in the depths of middle-age. She is a successful and elegant member of the upper middle-class when she almost literally bumps into Maudie, a little old woman who also lives on her own.

It turns out that Maudie is living in dreadful conditions, unable to clean or feed herself properly, and so Jane or Janna as she is called takes it upon herself to visit and look after this woman. What begins as friendship driven by curiosity soon becomes hard and unrewarding work.

Here the title comes into play: And this is where the book takes on a political edge that still finds bite today. What the author recognises here is crucial: They are underpaid, overworked, and have no representation in any kind of broader culture; politicians have no interest in them, and neither does the glamourous post-feminist media of which Janna counts herself part. And so what we are left with is one woman keeping another company. And feeding her, and changing her, and washing her. Everyone is to blame and nobody is responsible. And she develops a relationship with an older man named Richard which largely revolves around lengthy walks around London, and which is never actually consummated, despite much pining and longing on both sides.

It turns out that Janna is more preoccupied with thoughts of her departed husband than we might have thought, and Richard has a somewhat complex family situation of his own to deal with. Jul 10, Brayden rated it liked it. This novel is actually two books in one. Good Neighbor tells the story of Jane Somers through the keeping of a diary. That it is written as a first-person, diary-like narrative is my first complaint but I don't want to dwell on how I hate endless introspection in novels.

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Jane, or Janna as s This novel is actually two books in one. Jane, or Janna as she is often called, is an editor at a trendy fashion magazine in London. She lives what appears to her sister and nieces as a glamorous lifestyle, hanging out with models and writing about changes in style.

Janna admits right away that her career is of primary importance to her and that she gave up personal closeness in relationships in order to spend more time on the job. Although she once married, her husband died of cancer, a death that appears in her life story as more of a distraction than anything else. The same goes for the death of her mother, whose death Janna never completely mourned. Janna's only real friend is another editor at the journal, a woman with whom Janna shares a special connection due to their joint commitment to the magazine and lack of commitment to personal relationships.

If it is true that famous authors too often get free rides from publishers and critics, then it is equally true that famous authors expect free rides. The ego of an author can be a monumental thing -- especially, need it be said, that of a famous one -- and it can lead the author to believe that everything he or she writes is a work of genius.

This, as it happens, is not always true, but one constant remains: Famous authors expect all their books to be published, to be praised and to sell If anything, the Lessing case proves that the unknown but serious writer stands a reasonable chance of getting review attention, if not vast sales. The Jane Somers novels were reviewed by all three major American newspaper book-review supplements, which hardly justifies her complaint that "there were almost no reviews. Jane Somers got pretty much the same treatment as any unknown novelist receives, and that treatment is neither as unfair nor as indifferent as Lessing imagines it to be.

Her contention that book-review editors spend insufficient time looking for good books, regardless of the identity of their authors, is simply without foundation; the search for good but undiscovered books is what keeps many people in a business that too often presents them only with bad or mediocre ones What would have happened had Doris Lessing kept on writing as Jane Somers? Rather than spill the beans all over the newspapers and television, what if Lessing had given real weight to her experiment by carrying it to the end?