DL/A-Z//RAU A - [Correspondence with Albert Rau]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//RAU A
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Albert Rau]
Date/s
1991-2006
Quantity & Format
6 Letters (typescript)
Creator
Rau, AlbertCreator
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Scope and content
6 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between Albert Rau and Doris Lessing, regarding The Fifth Child.
DL/A-Z//RAU A/001 [from Albert Rau to Doris Lessing, 27/10/1991]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Writes that he is currently editing and annotating The Fifth Child in Diesterweg/ Frankfurt, to be looked at in German high schools. Discusses the aims of his teaching, including why and how fiction is created. Writes that it would be "very interesting for the students to learn about your ideas of what the function of literature is". Discusses the "fabric" and "powers, functions and possibilities of literature". Asks for Lessing's thoughts.
DL/A-Z//RAU A/002 [from Doris Lessing to Albert Rau, 27/11/1991]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Writes that she sees writers "as a kind of organ evolved by society to examine society". Writes that she had "no didactive [didactic] aim (sic)" for The Fifth Child. Discusses several reasons for writing a book. Mentions how she has always been interested in the way society "reacts to the alien, the different". Discusses how a writer "cannot write anything at all without instantly being told that she, he has written a tract of some kind". Writes of the subjects she has been "authoritatively" told that The Fifth Child is "about". References Russia and Vissarion Belinsky. Briefly mentions communism, communist ideology and Stalin.
DL/A-Z//RAU A/001 [from Albert Rau to Doris Lessing, 27/10/1991]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Writes that he is currently editing and annotating The Fifth Child in Diesterweg/ Frankfurt, to be looked at in German high schools. Discusses the aims of his teaching, including why and how fiction is created. Writes that it would be "very interesting for the students to learn about your ideas of what the function of literature is". Discusses the "fabric" and "powers, functions and possibilities of literature". Asks for Lessing's thoughts.
DL/A-Z//RAU A/002 [from Doris Lessing to Albert Rau, 27/11/1991]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Writes that she sees writers "as a kind of organ evolved by society to examine society". Writes that she had "no didactive [didactic] aim (sic)" for The Fifth Child. Discusses several reasons for writing a book. Mentions how she has always been interested in the way society "reacts to the alien, the different". Discusses how a writer "cannot write anything at all without instantly being told that she, he has written a tract of some kind". Writes of the subjects she has been "authoritatively" told that The Fifth Child is "about". References Russia and Vissarion Belinsky. Briefly mentions communism, communist ideology and Stalin.
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DL - Doris Lessing Archive
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
- DL/A-Z//RAU A - [Correspondence with Albert Rau]
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit