英美短篇小 说Unit 9 Through_the_Tunnel.ppt

Unit 9 Through the Tunnel ——Doris Lessing Author Biography Born: 22 October 1919 Birthplace: Kermanshah(克尔曼沙阿), Iran Best Known As: The author of The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing grew up in South Africa, a daughter of British citizens. She left school and home at an early age, finally moving to England in 1949. There she began her career as a novelist, publishing The Grass is Singing in 1950. During the 1950s she worked on what was to become 5 novels in the Children of Violence series, and in 1962 she gained international notice for her novel The Golden Notebook. Early life & Education Early life Lessing has described her childhood as an uneven mix of some pleasure and much pain. Her mother, obsessed with raising a proper daughter, enforced a rigid system of rules and hygiene at home, then installed Doris in a convent school, where nuns terrified their charges with stories of hell and damnation. Education Lessing was later sent to an all-girls high school in the capital of Salisbury, 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. Writing Career Often cited as a heroic figure to feminists, Lessing has continued to write novels, graphic novels, librettos and essays, including works influenced by science fiction and Sufi mysticism. She won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. Her breakthrough work though, was The Golden Notebook, 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. Her Books\Alphabetically by Title Novels The Grass is Singing (1950)野草在歌唱 The Golden Notebook (1962)金色笔记本 Br