Creativity and Writer’s Block in Doris Lessing’sThe Golden Notebook

Doris Lessings The Golden Notebook 1962 .Anna Wulf . . In Doris Lessings The Golden Notebook (1962), the English novelist presents what she calls writers block or the blocked creativity of the artist which prevented him or her from creating. In describing, the reasons for this block, Doris Lessing sheds light on the chaos, destructive relationships, lack of coherence and order in our fragmented materialistic society. Anna Wulf, the protagonist in the story, is a novelist of alienation and fragmentation of her consciousness in the disintegrated world. Writers block has taken her over and chocked the love for writing and searching she once had. This paper is an attempt to examine Anna writers block, her struggle to overcome this block and to arrive at an enlightened state of consciousness that allows for recreation.