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ISSN : 1229-5620(Print)
ISSN : 2288-7652(Online)
Literature and Religion Vol.22 No.3 pp.87-110
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14376/lar.2017.22.3.87

Sufism in Doris Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor

Park, Sun-hwa
Konkuk University Glocal Campus

Abstract

This paper examines Doris Lessing’s insight into sufi equilibrium in The Memoirs of a Survivor. Lessing uses sufi ideas to enhance the perception of human beings in support of her belief in the possibility of individual and world amelioration. These ideas are represented by a narrator in The Memoir of a Survivor, who comes and goes through an opening wall. The narrator sees other lives behind the wall, that consists of personal and impersonal scenes. The narrator and Emily, a character who just pops out from a room behind the wall, first experience crisis, anxiety and fear in an apocalyptic world, and then move into another order of world following a feminine deity. In like manner, Lessing expects that humans will participate in conscious evolution through imagining and apprehending a deity.

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