![]() According to Lacan's theory of the three registers of human experience, the real, the symbolic and the imaginary, language fails in the face of the real. Anna Wulf, the heroine of The Golden Notebook, can only deal with her experience by writing about it in separate notebooks the protagonist of Memoirs of a Survivor delivers a most confusing memoir in which facts and events intertwine with dreams and visions. ![]() Lessing's fiction is abundant with the symptoms of breakdown, and the heroines' experience is often rendered by means of fragmentation of the narrative form. This paper aims to explore the breakdown of communication in the novels written by Doris Lessing, and investigate into the nature of experience that is conveyed despite the failure of language. ![]()
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