Posted in Personal DevelopmentAgainst the Pleasurable Luxury of Despair and the Aridity of Self-pity: Doris Lessing on the Artist’s Task in Trying Times Estimated read time 7 min read Posted on June 9, 2025June 9, 2025 by WishelDSBorn in present-day Iran (then Persia) months after the end of the First World War and raised on a farm…