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Briefing for a Descent into Hell is a psychological and speculative novel by Doris Lessing, centered on Charles Watkins, a Cambridge professor who is found wandering in London with no memory of who he is. Confined to a psychiatric hospital, he moves between medical observation and extraordinary inner journeys that include oceans, ruined civilizations, cosmic visions, and fragments of a self that the surrounding world tries to restore to ordinary reality. Lessing uses the framework of literary fiction, psychological drama, and “inner space” science fiction to examine sanity, identity, institutional control, memory, and the uneasy boundary between illness and revelation, leaving the reader to consider whether Watkins is losing contact with reality or encountering a deeper form of it.
Author: Doris Lessing
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Publication year: 1971
Number of pages: 308
Original language: English