In this diploma paper we are dealing with Doris Lessing's novel The Golden Notebook. Because it has always been treated as a feminist novel, we will research this aspect of the novel and connected to it, some other themes: madness, women's writing, psychoanalysis in connection with the female orgasm and menstruation in the context of women's social status. The novel is partly autobiographical, we shall also discuss this aspect and the inevitable political themes in the novel. We will analyse the narrative procedures which are also postmodernist, but in the end we see that this does not occur to such an extent that we could call The Golden Notebook a postmodernist novel. Rancière offers a different insight into modernism and the postmodernism and in accordance with his philosophy we try to place The Golden Notebook into the literary canon of the 20th century.
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