英国文学__作家作品介绍_Doris_Lessing

DorisLessingTheGoldenNotebook Background In2007 LessingwontheNobelPrizeinLiterature ShewasdescribedbytheSwedishAcademyas thatepicistofthefemaleexperience 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 Lessing sinterestwasdrawntothepopularcommunityoftheLeftBookClub 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 ThenovelsweredeclinedbyLessing sUKpublisher butacceptedbyanotherEnglishpublish MichaelJoseph andintheUSbyAlfredA Knopf WritingCareer SheacceptedaCompanionofHonorattheendof1999for conspicuousnationalservice ShehasalsobeenmadeaCompanionofLiteraturebytheRoyalSocietyofLiterature On11October 2007 LessingwasannouncedasthewinneroftheNobelPrizeforLiterature Shewas87 makinghertheoldestwinneroftheliteratureprizeatthetimeoftheawardandthethirdoldestNobelLaureateinanycategory ShealsostandsasonlytheeleventhwomantobeawardedtheNobelPrizeforLiteraturebytheSwedishAcademyinits106 yearhistory Shetoldreportersoutsideherhome I vewonalltheprizesinEurope everybloodyone soI mdelightedtowinthemall It saroyalflush Ina2008interviewforBBC sFrontRow shestatedthatincreasedmediainterestfollowingtheawardhadleftherwithouttimeforwriting Notableaward s 1954 1986 1995 2001 2007 SomersetMaughamAward 毛姆文学奖 W H SmithLiteraryAwardW H 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 Lessing sfictioniscommonlydividedintothreedistinctphases TheGoldenNotebook BriefIntroduction TheGoldenNotebookisa1962novelbyDorisLessing Thisbook aswellasthecouplethatfollowedit enterstherealmofwhatMargaretDrabbleinTheOxfordCompaniontoEnglishLiteraturehascalledLessing s innerspacefiction herworkthatexploresmentalandsocietalbreakdown Thebookalsocontainsapowerfulanti warandanti Stalinistmessage anextendedanalysisofcommunismandtheCommunistPartyinEnglandfromthe1930stothe1950s andafamedexaminationofthebuddingsexualandwomen sliberationmovements TheGoldenNotebookhasbeentranslatedintoanumberofotherlanguages In2005 thenovelwaschosenbyTIMEmagazineasoneoftheonehundredbestEnglish languagenovelsfrom1923topresent Contents PlotSummary MajorThemes Characters ContentAbstract Plotsummary TheGoldenNotebookisthestoryofwriterAnnaWulf thefournotebooksinwhichshekeepstherecordofherlife andherattempttotiethemalltogetherinafifth gold colorednotebook ThebookinterspersessegmentsofanostensiblyrealisticnarrativeofthelivesofMollyandAnna andtheirchildren ex husbandsandlovers entitledFreeWomen withexcerptsfromAnna sfournotebooks colouredblack ofAnna sexperienceinSouthernRhodesia beforeandduringWWII whichinspiredherownbestsellingnovel red ofherexperienceasamemberoftheCommunistParty yellow anongoingnovelthatisbeingwrittenbasedonthepainfulendingofAnna sownloveaffair andblue Anna spersonaljournalwheresherecordshermemories dreams andemotionallife Plotsummary Eachnotebookisreturnedtofourtimes interspersedwithepisodesfromFreeWomen creatingnon chronological overlappingsectionsthatinteractwithoneanother Thispost modernisticstyling withitsspaceandroomfor play engagingthecharactersandreaders isamongthemostfamousfeaturesofthebook althoughLessinginsistedthatreadersandreviewerspayattentiontotheseriousthemesinthenovel ContentAbstract ItisthestoryofAnnaWulf awriterandsinglewoman wholiveswithheryoungdaughterinaflat occasionallyrentingoutaroom lessfortheincomethanoutofareflexofsocialobligation Laboringagainstawritingblock followingtheimmensesuccessofherautobiographicaldebutnovelaboutagroupofCommunistsincolonialAfrica Annastrugglestofindawaytointegratethemultipleselvesthatfragmentherpersonalityandmakeherlifeunbearablypainful Byviewingherlifefromthesedifferentangles goingoverherexperiences gaugingherresponses andcarefullyprobingherintertwinedlayersofconsciousness Annaeventuallymanagestounifyheridentifyinonenotebook munism thetraumaofemotionalrejectionandsexualbetrayal professionalanxieties andthetensionsoffriendshipandfamily Characters Writer MaincharacterofFreeWomenandwriteroftheNotebooks Anna Freeman Wulf Anna sex husband MaxWulf JanetWulf AnnaandMax sdaughter Characters Actress Anna sfrien