徐梦妍多丽丝莱辛

Her mother, obsessedv. 着迷 （obsess的过去式）；纠缠 with raising a proper daughter, enforced a rigid严格的 system of rules and hygienen卫生；卫 生学；保健法 at home, then installed Doris in a conventn 女修道院 school, where nuns修 女 terrified their charges with stories of hell and damnation 诅咒.
getting rich through maize玉米 farming, the family moved to the British colony in Southern Rhodesia n. 罗德西亚 (now
Early life & Education
• Early life
• Education
➢ this novel has called “ the Bible圣经 of Feminist”
Literary Style
. As a short story writer, Doris
Lessing is particularly noted for her precision, her choice of words and her economy of language. Her life and experience in Rhodesia have provided excellent material for her African stories, which have been widely acclaimed.
• This book explores mental and societal breakdown. It also contains a powerful anti-war and anti- Stalinist斯大 林式的 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萌芽 的 sexual and women's liberation movements.
Reviews on the Golden Notebook
➢ The Golden Notebook is the masterpiece of Doris Lessing, on English female novelist.
➢ The book offers “ an understanding of issues such as political repression镇压, sexual abuse, single parenthood, writer’s block, and women’s movement.”
• Remember that the book which bores you when bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you are forty or fifty--and vice-versa.
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----Doris Lessing
The golden Notebook
• Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment醒悟 with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine reviles辱骂 part of her own experience. And in the blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity疯 狂, Anna tries to bring the threads线 串联 of all four books together in a golden notebook and reflects the inner life of women who want to live freely .
• it is a daring narrative experiment, in which the multiple多 样的 selves of a contemporary同时代的 woman are rendered in表现出 astonishing惊人的 depth and detail. Anna Wulf, like Lessing herself, strives for ruthless残忍的 honesty as she aims to free herself from the chaos, emotional numbness麻木, and hypocrisy afflicting使痛苦 her generation.
award, and the third oldest Nobel Laureate n. 桂冠诗人；得奖者 in any category.
(SthoecoieldtyesMt iasragninAamlizeericdaPn,e9o0,pfloer( Ronnie)
economic prize, the youngest is a British, 25 for physics prize)
都） , from which she soon dropped out. She was thirteen; and it was the end of her formal education.
But like other women writers from southern African who did not graduate from high school (such as Olive Schreiner and Nadine Gordimer), Lessing made herself into a self-educated intellectual.
Doris Lessing
多丽丝•莱辛
英语11-3 徐梦妍
Doris Lessing
British Writer
born in Oct. 1919
Family
I.Doris Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in Persia波斯（西南亚国家，现称伊朗） (now Iran伊朗) on October 22, 1919.
The golden Notebook
• The Golden Notebook is the longest and the most ambitious work Doris Lessing has ever attempted to write. It is a masterpiece杰作 in portraiture肖像画 of the manners, aspirations愿望, anxieties and the particular problems of the times in which we live.
Lessing has described her
childhood as an uneven不均匀的 mix of some pleasure and much pain.
Lessing was later sent to an
all-girls high school in the capital of Salisbury 索尔兹伯里 市（津巴布韦，原罗得西亚首
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 titled her Nobel Lecture On Not Winning the Nobel Prize and used it to draw attention to global inequality of opportunity, and to explore changing attitudes to storytelling and literature
self-evaluation
• Lessing does not like the idea of being pigeon-holed as a feminist author. When asked why, she replies:
• What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. What they would really like me to say is, 'Ha, sisters, I stand with you side by side in your struggle toward the golden dawn where all those beastly men are no more.' Do they really want people to make oversimplified statements about men and women? In fact, they do. I've come with great regret to this conclusion.