Flights of Memory: Digression and Allusion in Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor

Halfway between a fable and a magical tale, the ‘space fiction’ narrated in The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) appears to be ‘an attempt at autobiography’ which is directed towards the future of mankind, involving the rhetoric of personal and collective memory. Paradoxically, the fact that the story i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anne-Laure Brevet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2005-11-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/13771