英国文学选读—doris lessing莱辛.pptVIP

Doris Lessing 1919/12/22- Doris May Lessing ( born 22 October 1919) 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（叙事诗人） of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny.授奖辞称：“这个表述女性经验的诗人，以其怀疑主义精神，火一样的热情和丰富的想象力，对一个分裂的文明作了详尽细致的考察”。Lessing is the eleventh woman to win the prize in its 106-year history, and also the oldest person ever to win the literature award. Background Lessing was born to Captain Alfred Tayler and Emily Maude Tayler , who were both English and of British nationality. 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(切断手术）. Alfred Tayler moved his family to Persia（波斯） (now Iran), in order to take up a job as a clerk for the Imperial Bank of Persia and it was here that Doris was born in 1919. The family then moved to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1925 to farm corn, when her father purchased around one thousand acres of bush. Lessings mother attempted to lead an Edwardian life style amongst the rough environment, which would have been easy had the family been wealthy; it was not. The farm was not successful and failed to deliver the wealth they had expected. Lessing was educated at the Dominican Convent High School, a Roman Catholic convent all-girls school in Salisbury (now Harare哈拉雷). Lessing left school aged 14, and thereafter was self-educated. She left home at 15 and worked as a nursemaid（育婴女佣）, and it was around this time that Lessing started reading material on politics and sociology that her employer gave her to read. She began writing around this time. In 1937, Lessing moved to Salisbury to work as a telephone operator（话务员）, and she soon married her first husband