英国文学--作家作品介绍-Doris-Lessing.ppt

英国文学--作家作品介绍-Doris-Lessing.ppt

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,DorisLessingTheGoldenNotebook,Background,In2007,LessingwontheNobelPrizeinLiterature.ShewasdescribedbytheSwedishAcademyasthatepicistofthefemaleexperience,whowithScepticism,fireandvisionarypowerhassubjectedadividedcivilizationtoscrutiny.,DorisLessingisaBritishwriter,authorofworkssuchasthenovelsTheGrassisSingingandTheGoldenNotebook.,Contents,DorisLessing,TheGoldenNotebook,Born,22October1919,Penname,JaneSomers,Nationality,British,BriefIntroduction,DorisLessing,EarlyLife,Childhood（1-18）,FirstMarrige（19-23）,SecondMarrige（25-29）,LessingwasborninIran,thenknownasPersia,on22October1919.Herfather,whohadlostalegduringhisserviceinWorldWarI,methisfuturewife,anurse,attheRoyalFreeHospitalwherehewasrecoveringfromhisamputation.LessingwaseducatedattheDominicanConventHighSchool,aRomanCatholicconventall-girlsschoolinSalisbury.,EarlyLife,Sheleftschoolattheageof14,andwasself-educatedfromthereon;shelefthomeat15andworkedasanursemaid.In1937,LessingmovedtoSalisburytoworkasatelephoneoperator,andshesoonmarriedherfirsthusband,FrankWisdom,withwhomshehadtwochildren,beforethemarriageendedin1943.,Followingherfirstdivorce,LessingsinterestwasdrawntothepopularcommunityoftheLeftBookClub,acommunistbookclubwhichshehadjoinedtheyearbefore.Itwasherethatshemetherfuturesecondhusband,GottfriedLessing.Theyweremarriedshortlyaftershejoinedthegroup,andhadachildtogether（Peter）,beforethemarriagefailedandendedindivorcein1949.Afterthesetwofailedmarriages,shehasnotbeenmarriedsince.,Notablework（s）,WritingCareer,BecauseofhercampaigningagainstnucleararmsandSouthAfricanapartheid,LessingwasbannedfromthatcountryandfromRhodesiaformanyyears.ShemovedtoLondonwithheryoungestsonin1949.Herfirstnovel,TheGrassIsSinging,waspublishedin1950.Herbreakthroughwork,TheGoldenNotebook,waswrittenin1962.,In1984,sheattemptedtopublishtwonovelsunderapseudonym,JaneSomers,todemonstratethedifficultynewauthorsfacedintryingtobreakintoprint.ThenovelsweredeclinedbyLessingsUKpublisher,butacceptedbyanotherEnglishpublish,MichaelJoseph,andintheUSbyAlfredA.Knopf.,WritingCareer,SheacceptedaCompanionofHonorattheendof1999forconspicuousnationalservice.ShehasalsobeenmadeaCompanionofLiteraturebytheRoyalSocietyofLiterature.On11October,2007,LessingwasannouncedasthewinneroftheNobelPrizeforLiterature.Shewas87,makinghertheoldestwinneroftheliteratureprizeatthetimeoftheawardandthethirdoldestNobelLaureateinanycategory.ShealsostandsasonlytheeleventhwomantobeawardedtheNobelPrizeforLiteraturebytheSwedishAcademyinits106-yearhistory.ShetoldreportersoutsideherhomeIvewonalltheprizesinEurope,everybloodyone,soImdelightedtowinthemall.Itsaroyalflush.Ina2008interviewforBBCsFrontRow,shestatedthatincreasedmediainterestfollowingtheawardhadleftherwithouttimeforwriting.,Notableaward（s）,1954,1986,1995,2001,2007,SomersetMaughamAward（毛姆文学奖）,W.H.SmithLiteraryAwardWH史密斯文学奖,JamesTaitBlackMemorialBookPrize詹姆斯泰特布莱克纪念奖,DavidCohenPrize阿斯图里亚斯王子奖,NobelPrizeinLiterature,Literarystyle,Lessingsfictioniscommonlydividedintothreedistinctphases,TheGoldenNotebook,BriefIntroduction,TheGoldenNotebookisa1962novelbyDorisLessing.Thisbook,aswellasthecouplethatfollowedit,enterstherealmofwhatMargaretDrabbleinTheOxfordCompaniontoEnglishLiteraturehascalledLessingsinnerspacefiction,herworkthatexploresmentalandsocietalbreakdown.Thebookalsocontainsapowerfulanti-warandanti-Stalinistmessage,anextendedanalysisofcommunismandtheCommunistPartyinEnglandfromthe1930stothe1950s,andafamedexaminationofthebuddingsexualandwomensliberationmovements.TheGoldenNotebookhasbeentranslatedintoanumberofotherlanguages.In2005,thenovelwaschosenbyTIMEmagazineasoneoftheonehundredbestEnglish-languagenovelsfrom1923topresent.,Contents,PlotSummary,MajorThemes,Characters,ContentAbstract,Plotsummary,TheGoldenNotebookisthestoryofwriterAnnaWulf,thefournotebooksinwhichshekeepstherecordofherlife,andherattempttotiethemalltogetherinafifth,gold-colorednotebook.ThebookinterspersessegmentsofanostensiblyrealisticnarrativeofthelivesofMollyandAnna,andtheirchildren,ex-husbandsandloversentitledFreeWomenwithexcerptsfromAnnasfournotebooks,colouredblack（ofAnnasexperienceinSouthernRhodesia,beforeandduringWWII,whichinspiredherownbestsellingnovel）,red（ofherexperienceasamemberoftheCommunistParty）,yellow（anongoingnovelthatisbeingwrittenbasedonthepainfulendingofAnnasownloveaffair）,andblue（Annaspersonaljournalwheresherecordshermemorie