Doris Lessing’in The Golden Notebook ve The Diary of a Good Neigbour Adlı Romanlarında Diyalojik Benliğe Yolculuk

The Golden Notebook (1962) and Diary of a Good Neighbour (1983) by Doris Lessing are two novels providing insight into the perceptions their protagonists, Anna Janna, regarding life self. When approached from dialogic standpoint Russian linguist literary theorist Mikhail M. Bakhtin, both notable with respect to conflicts they issue between self as monologic outcome experiences, necessity felt for moving towards conceptualization self, hence, life. While addressing one-sided observation an individual performs in way she understands her surroundings, carry scrutinizing aspect psychological social impacts this demeanor. This paper reveals how, Lessing’s novels, Bakhtin’s principle, based on this, concept is applicable. Analyzing protagonists’ relations selves, it argues that interactions world evolve living, ones fed new perceptions.