多丽丝·莱辛 Doris Lessing.pptx

Doris Lessing;her as that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny. Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the?David Cohen Prize?for a lifetimes achievement in?British literature. In 2008,?The Times ranked her fifth on a list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945.;Early Times;After the divorce, she met her future second husband,?Gottfried Lessing. They married and had a child (Peter, born in 1946), before they divorced in 1949. Lessing moved to London in 1949 with her youngest son, Peter, to pursue her writing career and communist beliefs, but left the two elder children with their father Frank Wisdom in South Africa. As well as campaigning against nuclear arms, she was an active opponent of?apartheid?which led in 1956 to being banned from South Africa and Rhodesia for many years. ;Her first novel,?The Grass Is Singing, was published in 1950. The work that gained her international attention,?The Golden Notebook, was published in 1962. Lessing is a prolific writer. By the time of her death, she had issued more than 50 novels, some under a pseudonym. Her literary career began from 1950 and can be divided into three periods. ;The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980) 《第三,四,五区域间的联姻》 The Sirian Experiments (1980) 《天狼星试验》 The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1982) 《第八号行星代表的产生》 The Diary of a Good Neighbour (as Jane Somers) (1983) 《简·萨莫斯的日记》 The Fifth Child (1988) 《第五个孩子》 Love, Again (1996) 《又来了，爱情》 The Old Age of ElMagnifico (