Download or read book Narrative Authority and Homeostasis in the Novels of Doris Lessing and Carmen Martín Gaite written by Linda E. Chown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, originally published in 1990, assesses a shift in the presentation of self-consciousness in two pairs of novels by Doris Lessing and Carmen Martín Gaite: 1) Lessing’s The Summer Before the Dark (1973) and Martín Gaite’s Retahílas (1974) and 2) Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974) and Martín Gaite’s The Back Room (1978). Three major structural divisions facilitate examining implications of the novels for 1) feminism 2) literary narrative and 3) the lives of people-at-large.