英国文学 作家作品介绍 Doris Lessing

Literary style
Lessing's fiction is commonly divided into three distinct phases
Communist theme
psychological theme
Sufi theme (伊斯兰苏菲派)
1944-1956
1956-1969
1969----
The Golden Notebook
L/O/G/O
Brief Introduction
• The Golden Notebook is a 1962 novel by Doris Lessing. This book, as well as the couple that followed it, enters the realm of what Margaret Drabble in The Oxford Companion to English Literature has called Lessing's "inner space fiction", her work that explores mental and societal breakdown. The book also contains a powerful anti-war and anti-Stalinist message, an extended analysis of communism and the Communist Party in England from the 1930s to the 1950s, and a famed examination of the budding sexual and women's liberation movements. The Golden Notebook has been translated into a number of other languages. • In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present.
Lessing was born in Iran, then known as Persia, on 22 October 1919. Her father, who had lost a leg during his service in World War I, met his future wife, a nurse, at the Royal Free Hospital where he was recovering from his amputation. Lessing was educated at the Dominican Convent High School, a Roman Catholic convent all-girls school in Salisbury.
Contents
Brief Introduction
Brief Introduction Plot Summary Early Life
Notable Works and Awards
Content Abstract
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Writing Career
Characters
Literary Style
Major Themes
Early Life
She left school at the age of 14, and was self-educated from there on; she left home at 15 and worked as a nursemaid. In 1937, Lessing moved to Salisbury to work as a telephone operator, and she soon married her first husband, Frank Wisdom, with whom she had two children, before the marriage ended in 1943. Following her first divorce, Lessing's interest was drawn to the popular community of the Left Book Club, a communist book club which she had joined the year before. It was here that she met her future second husband, Gottfried Lessing. They were married shortly after she joined the group, and had a child together (Peter), before the marriage failed and ended in divorce in 1949. After these two failed marriages, she has not been married since.
Notable award(s)
1954 1986 1995 2001
2007
Somerset Maugham Award (毛姆文学奖)
W. H. Smith Literary AwardW‧H‧史密斯文学奖
James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize 詹姆斯· 泰特· 布莱克纪念奖 David Cohen Prize 阿斯图里亚斯王子奖 Nobel Prize in Literature
Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook
Brief Introduction
Doris Lessing
Born 22 October 1919
Pen name
Jane Somers
Nationality
British
Early Life
Childhood (1-18) First Marrige (19-23) Second Marrige (25-29)
Writing Career
She accepted a Companion of Honor at the end of 1999 for "conspicuous national service". She has also been made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature. On 11 October, 2007,Lessing was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was 87, making her the oldest winner of the literature prize at the time of the award and the third oldest Nobel Laureate in any category. She also stands as only the eleventh woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy in its 106-year history. She told reporters outside her home "I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one, so I'm delighted to win them all. It's a royal flush." In a 2008 interview for BBC's Front Row, she stated that increased media interest following the award had left her without time for writing.
Contents
Plot Summary
Content Abstract
Characters Major Themes
Plot summary
The Golden Notebook is the story of writer Anna Wulf, the four notebooks in which she keeps the record of her life, and her attempt to tie them all together in a fifth, gold-colored notebook. The book intersperses segments of an ostensibly realistic narrative of the lives of Molly and Anna, and their children, exhusbands and lovers—entitled Free Women—with excerpts from Anna's four notebooks, coloured black (of Anna's experience in Southern Rhodesia, before and during WWII, which inspired her own bestselling novel), red (of her experience as a member of the Communist Party), yellow (an ongoing novel that is being written based on the painful ending of Anna's own love affair), and blue (Anna's personal journal where she records her memories, dreams, and emotional life).
Notable work(s)
The Grass Is Singing The Golden Notebook
The Good Terrorist Briefing for a Descent into Hell
The Cleft
Writing Career
Because of her campaigning against nuclear arms and South African apartheid, Lessing was banned from that country and from Rhodesia for many years. She moved to London with her youngest son in 1949. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, was published in 1950. Her breakthrough work, The Golden Notebook, was written in 1962. In 1984,she attempted to publish two novels under a pseudonym,Jane Somers,to demonstrate the difficulty new authors faced in trying to break into print. The novels were declined by Lessing's UK publisher, but accepted by another English publish, Michael Joseph, and inthe US by Alfred A.Knopf.
Doris Lessing
The Golden Notebook
L/O/G/O
Background
Doris Lessing is a British writer, author of works such as the novels The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook.
In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as "that epicist of the female experience, who with Scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny".