Doris Lessing wrote novels dealing with people caught up in social and political turmoil. Doris Lessing dealt with the concerns of women in her novel ‘The Golden Notebook.’ Her ‘Children of Violence’, a series of five novels, begins with ‘Martha Quest’ and ends with a vision of the world after nuclear disaster in ‘The Four-Gated City’. She was acclaimed for her mastery of the short story.
Muriel Spark’s early novels, such as ‘The Girls of Slender Means’, were characterized by a humorous fantasy. Her later books were of a sinister nature, including ‘The Mandelbaum Gate’ and ‘Not to Disturb’. Her best-known works are ‘Memento Mori’ and ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.’
The 1960s saw a new type of literature. The criticism was revealed in the ‘working-class novel’. These novels deal with characters coming from the working class. The best known writer of the trend is Alan Sillitoe.
Contemporary literature
Contemporary English novelists are represented by several different trends. Since 1960s the literary life in Great Britain has developed greatly. The new time brings new heroes, new experience in theatrical life and poetry, new forms and standards in prosaic works. The specific feature is the variety of genres and styles. Alongside with the realistic method the symbolic method takes place and develops further. On the one hand, the themes in the modern literary works concern global problems: the Peace and the War, the environmental protection, the relations between the mankind and Universe. But on the other hand, the duties and obligations of the individual man, the psychology of the human nature, the life’s situations, the ways of solving problems, the power and money have always been in the centre of public attention, that found its reflection in the newest English literature, too.
Spark'>Fiction
The two most innovatory novelists to begin their careers soon after World War II were religious believers - William Golding and Muriel Spark. In novels of poetic compactness they frequently return to the notion of original sin. Concentrating on small communities, Spark and Golding transfigure them into microcosms. Allegory and symbol set wide resonances quivering, so that short books make large statements.
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