{"product_id":"found-object-no-0034-26-new-york-city-briefing-for-a-descent-into-hell-by-doris-lessing","title":"Found Object No.0034.26, New York City, Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"w6asjq_TextBase GgxHUa_Title PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eBriefing for a Descent into Hell — Doris Lessing (1971)\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efirst edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"w6asjq_TextBase _85PZeG_Text\"\u003eA Cambridge professor is found wandering the streets of London, stripped of his memory and identity. Confined to a psychiatric hospital, Charles Watkins embarks on an extraordinary inner voyage through shipwrecks, ancient civilizations, savage rituals, and cosmic landscapes. As doctors attempt to restore his sanity through increasingly powerful treatments, a disturbing question emerges: \u003cspan class=\"w6asjq_TextBase _85PZeG_Text\"\u003eIs Watkins losing his mind, or has he discovered a reality the rest of us cannot see?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"w6asjq_TextBase _85PZeG_Text\"\u003eIn this hallucinatory novel, Doris Lessing dismantles the boundaries between madness and revelation, asking whether the very institutions designed to heal us might also destroy the truths we carry within.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"w6asjq_TextBase _85PZeG_Text\"\u003eLessing described the novel as \"inner-space fiction,\" extending her exploration of consciousness beyond the psychological realism of \u003cspan class=\"w6asjq_TextBase _85PZeG_Text\"\u003eThe Golden Notebook\u003c\/span\u003e. Published in 1971, it anticipated the increasingly mystical and speculative direction her later fiction would take.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paper + Stone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53207072178457,"sku":null,"price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/9365\/2249\/files\/ObjectPortraitBriefingforadescentintoHell.jpg?v=1789744098","url":"https:\/\/paperstoneshop.com\/products\/found-object-no-0034-26-new-york-city-briefing-for-a-descent-into-hell-by-doris-lessing","provider":"Paper + Stone","version":"1.0","type":"link"}