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

In Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook (1962), the English novelist presents what she calls “writer’s 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 fragmentedmaterialistic society. Anna Wulf, the protagonist in the story, is a novelist of alienation and fragmentation of her consciousness in the disintegrated world. Writer’s block has taken her over and chocked the love for writing and searching she once had. This paper is an attempt to examine Anna writer’s block, her struggle to overcome this block and to arrive at an enlightened state of consciousness that allows for “recreation”.