Lessing's earlier novel Briefing for a Descent into Hell explores many of the same issues. Whereas her male protagonist, Charles Watkins, fails to achieve his identity, Kate Brown successfully completes her journey toward a greater, almost forgotten self-realization. Between the publication of these two novels, Lessing also wrote "The Temptation of Jack Orkney," a novella that presents another male protagonist undergoing.....
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