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| | Lessing, Doris on Encyclopedia.com |
 | | Among Lessing's other novels are Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971), The Summer before the Dark (1973), The Good Terrorist (1985), The Fifth Child (1988) and its sequel, Ben, in the World (2000), and The Sweetest Dream (2001), a semiautobiographical tale of the 1960s. | | | Doris Lessing speaks the wisdom of the older woman | | | I haven't changed one bit Doris Lessing was writing about feminism before Germaine Greer, and, having outlived her contemporaries Iris Murdoch and Penelope Fitzgerald, has published two books this yea |
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| | DORIS LESSING |
| | Lessing mechanically compares and contrasts the good old days with the bad new ones, hitting us over the head with obvious and ungainly analogies between her fairy tale world and the real world we live in. | | | Lessing swiftly complicates this story: A teenage Victoria has an affair with Thomas, becomes pregnant, breaks off the affair, has the baby without telling him, marries another man, becomes a widow and eventually tells Thomas about their daughter, Mary. | | | Lessing, who deals in making the incredible real, does so here: against all likelihood she convinces the reader that war roams the world quite apart from its battlefields. |
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| | Doris Lessing |
| | Meanwhile Frances, Doris Lessing's contemporary and a generous, resilient character who clearly has all the author's sympathy, finds herself by the 1960s running a communal household where her teenage sons and their friends drift in and out, no one is refused a meal or a bed and shoplifting is tolerated because property is theft. | | | Lessing begins her story in the 1960s with the household of Frances Lennox, earth mother to a huge extended family, other people’s children as well as her own two sons, Andrew and Colin. | | | For her early, not-so-loyal readers, the true Lessing is the Communist who lost her faith but still strove to do good, the strong woman who found her own destiny in a world of men. |
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| | Salon The Salon Interview: Doris Lessing |
| | Lessing has also ventured into science fiction in a series called "Canopus in Argos: Archives." Her more recent work includes "The Good Terrorist" (1986), a satire about romantic politics, and "Love, Again" (1996) about, among other things, the possibilities of romance and love at an advanced age. | | | Both books are full of Lessing's shrewd, no-nonsense language and observations. | | | It's impossible to read these books (a third installment is planned) without feeling the rude, healthy glow of a life fully lived. |
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http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1997/11/cov_si_11lessing.html
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| | Writing the Self: Selected Works of Doris Lessing |
| | She is able to recreate past selves and commune in an inner dialogue with earlier and necessarily fictive selves while constructing a coherent text that represents a healed and unified self at a particular instant in time. | | | The authorial intrusion is significant; it illustrates the distance Martha still must travel in her past to be able to live in her present and future, and it also forcefully demonstrates the generational and psychological distance between mother and daughter. | | | Psychoanalysis in particular can be valuable to literature both as a tool to understanding texts, and as a metaphor for texts: self-representational texts become a presentation of oneself in various guises, a search for "truth", "answers", and a means of achieving explication and purgation. |
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http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/vol2no2/lessing.html
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| | Similarities Between Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing. by Lynda Scott. |
| | Lessing's self-representational texts are, I suggest, an attempt to 'fix' the past, so that she is able to present the 'truth' as she perceives it. | | | When recalling their trip to England via Moscow, for instance, Lessing juxtaposes what her mother reconstructs for her, and her own 'reality': 'The story says we were read to, we played with plasticine, we drew pictures with chalks... | | | Many of Woolf's and Lessing's characters are, I believe, authorial 'fictive selves,' in texts rich with layered pasts so that each contains a valid personal 'truth' applicable to a given moment in time. |
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http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/vol3no2/scott.html
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| | NYTimes |
| | Lessing calls her ''space-fiction'' series - ''Canopus in Argos: Archives.'' Instantly, Lessingites and the greater literary world reeled in shock as the advocate of social concern on this planet adopted the viewpoint of outer space: The formerly realistic writer had been transformed into a cosmic visionary. | | | Lessing maintains that, through stress, ''a new man is about to be born.'' If this is the path of evolution, then there must be survivors - otherwise, there can be no evolution. | | | The writer sees her series as a realm where ''the petty fates of planets, let alone individuals, are only aspects of cosmic evolution.'' The trouble for her readers is that few consider their personal fates petty, let alone that of the planet. |
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| | Nancy Knowles NEMLA 2002 |
| | One way the novel depictsthis pervasiveness is by using the fragmentary quality of the novel tojuxtapose dualistic thinking in otherwise non-violent everyday life withsituations in which this thinking clearly involves physical violence. | | | Representation of violence as both physical and structural occurs in a number of 20th-century women's novels including Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, which chronicles the life of fictional author Anna Wulf. | | | Like other scholars, Abel addresses therejection of dualistic thinking in The GoldenNotebook (102), but her argument is undercut by aligningLessing's ideas with those of the French feminists, which rely heavilyon the male-female opposition. |
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http://www.cwru.edu/affil/sce/Texts_2002/Knowles.html
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| | Doris Lessing |
| | Lessing has also collaborated with the composer Philip Glass on an opera based on the novel The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. | | | The fourth volume of her space fiction series tells the story of a remote planet of the Canopean empire, a beautiful tropical paradise, which becomes a world of ice. | | | It has been said that Lessing's Children of violence and more The Canopus in Argos reflects the influence of Sufist thought and concern with the union of the soul with a Higher Being |
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http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dlessing.htm
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| | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
| | Lessing has been called the true founder of modern German literature. | | | To clarify his idea he analyzed the famous sculpture, representing three dying figures in the grip of snakes. | | | His most famous dramas are Miss Sara Sampson (1755), a domestic tragedy, Minna von Barnhelm (1755), a comedy about honor, marriage, and pretence, and Nathan the Wise (1779), set in Jerusalem during the Crusades. |
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| | Doris Lessing |
| | Doris Lessing's recent fiction includes Ben, in the World (2000), a sequel to the The Fifth Child, and, The Sweetest Dream (2001), which follows the fortunes of a family through the twentieth century, set in London during the 1960s and contemporary Africa. | | | Briefing for a Descent into Hell is about a man who is found wandering the streets of London with no memory of a 'normal' life, while Kate, the central character of The Summer Before the Dark, achieves a kind of enlightenment through what doctors would describe as a breakdown. | | | The first book in the series, Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta, was published in 1979. |
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http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors?p=auth60
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books By genre Observer review: The Story of General Dann ... by Doris Lessing |
| | Lessing's novel is a fable, with the lingering, troubling quality of an ancient tale, a meditation on the potential hostility of the planet, the value of the culture we shore up against our ruins, and the constant presence of war and inevitability of the loss of everything learned in a lifetime. | | | The unwieldy, apparently naive title of Doris Lessing's latest novel gives quite a lot of clues as to what follows. | | | The Story of General Dann and Maria's Daughter and the Snow Dog |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1519819,00.html
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| | JOYCE CAROL OATES : ON DORIS LESSING |
| | Her books, especially the Martha Quest series, The Golden Notebook, and Briefing for a Descent into Hell, have traced an evolutionary progress of the soul, which to some extent transforms the reader as he reads. | | | However, critical response to a book like his, or any book which attempts to deal sympathetically with so-called "mystical" experiences, will meet opposition from the status quo. | | | This is a gift that cannot be analyzed; it must only be honored. |
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http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/lessing.html
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| | Doris Lessing |
| | Doris's mother adapted to the rough life in the settlement, energetically trying to reproduce what was, in her view, a civilized, Edwardian life among savages; but her father did not, and the thousand-odd acres of bush he had bought failed to yield the promised wealth. | | | 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. | | | Bedtime stories also nurtured her youth: her mother told them to the children and Doris herself kept her younger brother awake, spinning out tales. |
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| | NOW with Bill Moyers. Arts & Culture. Doris Lessing PBS |
| | "THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK is Doris Lessing's most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women." --Elizabeth Hardwick, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, 2002. | | | "The question: Why does Doris Lessing - one of the half-dozen most interesting m inds to have chosen to write fiction in English in this century - ins ist on propagating books that confound and dismay her loyal readers ? | | | This book continues the story of Martha Quest as she leaves her farm for 'the big city'. |
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| | Reading Group Guide THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK by Doris Lessing |
| | So begins Doris Lessing's most famous novel, published in 1962, and now considered one of the major works of twentieth-century literature. | | | How does Anna Wulf try to deal with her inner self-divisions? | | | Lessing has written that the central theme of The Golden Notebook is of "'breakdown', that sometimes when people 'crack up' it is a way of self-healing." In what ways does this theme find expression in the novel? |
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| | Doris Lessing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | When asked about which of her books she considers most important, Lessing choose the Canopus in Argos series. | | | These books are based partly on sufi concepts, to which Lessing was introduced by Idries Shah. | | | This novel also allegedly made Lessing a candidate for the Nobel prize, but her later science fiction books (The Canopus series) may have discredited her, so that she was removed from the unofficial list of those under consideration. |
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| | Fiction: Doris Lessing |
| | Her first two books, the novel The Grass Is Singing (1950) and a volume of short stories, This Was the Old Chief's Country (1951), are based on her experiences on Rhodesia. | | | Two of her collections are The Doris Lessing Reader (1989) and The Real Thing, stories and sketches published in 1922. | | | She has published many novels, but perhaps the most influential was The Golden Notebook (1962), an experimental book exploring the destructive relationships between men and women that mirror the lack of coherence and order in our fragmented, materialistic century. |
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| | Doris Lessing |
| | At last she produced Diary of a Good Neighbour, which is a sort of lighter version of TGN, but in the same vein. | | | Lessing also has one of the famous, if clicheed, stories about publishing as an unknown writer: After she was famous, publishers and critics frequently requested another book like The Golden Notebook instead of the space fiction she was writing. | | | Eventually, when she was thirty, she moved to London with her third child, a son by the German exile (whom she married so he could get a visa, purportedly). |
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| | In Word Archive -- Conversation with Doris Lessing |
| | In the preface to a later edition of The Golden Notebook, you wrote, "The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still small." | | | The book opens as she moves to London with her small son, and her soon-to-be-successful novel, The Grass is Singing. | | | Lessing graciously engaged in a lively dialogue, and patiently responded to many questions about womeny?Ns issues. |
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| | Doris May Lessing -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | The first major German dramatist and the founder of German classical comedy was Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. | | | Essay on the works of Idries Shah, the author of the classic, The Sufis, by this British writer. | | | The semiautobiographical novel The Golden Notebook (1962), in which a woman writer attempts to come to terms with the life of her times through her art, is one of her most complex and her most... |
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| | EN 300 - The Fifth Child |
| | Pickering also discusses the ironic elements of The Fifth Child (179), and goes into a detailed anaylsis of the novel, including the concepts of physical and spiritual evolution (191 - 195). | | | Lessing also discusses some of the critical analysis of the novel, and her reaction to it. | | | She speaks of the ideas that sparked the novel, the effects that she wanted to create in writing it, and what she wants her book to say to the reader. |
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| | Gringoes |
| | Doris Lessing has captured the spirit of her time and the spirit of our time as no other writer has done in recent history. | | | Doris Lessing who has just turned 86, is considered by some, including this critic, as the best living writer in the English language. | | | As a teenager at school she was known as: Tigger Tayler, after her first marriage she became Tigger Wisdom (after marrying a colonial named Frank Wisdom and bearing him two children) after her second Tigger Lessing, or Comrade Tigger to the local members of the miniscule Communist Party. |
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| | 'The Sweetest Dream' by Doris Lessing |
| | This is Lessing at her best, a fine introduction for readers who have yet to discover her and a return to the battleground of ideas for her diehard fans. | | | Unlike the rebellious protagonist of Doris Lessing’s searing “Children of Violence” pentology (1952-69), who is swept up in the roaring maelstrom of political upheaval, Frances is a stay-at-home nurturer, an earth mother of the ’60s. | | | Lessing has sought, she says in her author’s note, “to recapture the spirit of, particularly, the Sixties, that contradictory time which, looking back and comparing it with what came later, seems surprisingly innocent.” |
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| | Malaspina Great Books - Doris Lessing (1919) |
| | Her work has been translated into a number of languages and is regularly re-issued or re-printed. | | | She grew up in Africa and travelled to England for the first time in 1949, carrying with her the manuscript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing, which was published a year later (Michael Joseph, 1950). | | | In recent years Doris Lessing's relationship with the new Zimbabwe has remained somewhat troubled, with works such as her accounts of her travels in Africa reflecting a sense of disillusionment with the way the new post-colonial nation has turned out. |
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| | Life is stronger than fiction -- at 76, Doris Lessing wants to be alone |
| | In 1949 Lessing left Southern Rhodesia with her and Gottfried's son, Peter, and came to London with a few pounds in her pocket and the manuscript of her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, a study of the complex relationship between a white farmer's wife and her black servant. | | | First she was a writer on colour, then on communism, then - with her most famous book, The Golden Notebook - on feminism. | | | I ask her if Love, Again marks a return to realism. |
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| | BBC News ARTS Doris Lessing attacks feminists |
| | Zimbabwean-born author Doris Lessing has used a speech at the Edinburgh book festival to defend men against what she called the "unthinking and automatic rubbishing" by feminists. | | | Doris Lessing, famous for books like The Grass Is Singing and The Golden Notebook, won Britain's biggest literary award the David Cohen British Literature Prize earlier this year. | | | Lessing, 81, who has been strongly identified with feminism, said that men had become "so cowed that they can't fight back". |
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| | Doris Lessing - Author - The Sweetest Dream | | | Frances Lennox ladles out dinner every night to the motley, exuberant, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable ableher two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends, and ftesh-off-the-street friends. | | | Set against the backdrop of the decade that changed the world forever, The Sweetest Dream is a riveting look at a group of people who dared to dream-and faced the inevitable cleanup afterward -- from one of the greatest writers of our time. |
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| | Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: L: Lessing, Doris |
| | Doris Lessing: A Retrospective - Includes a biography, a detailed bibliography, a catalog of her books, reprinted articles, audio and portraits of the author. | | | Featured Author: Doris Lessing - Reviews of Lessing's books from the archives of the New York Times and an audio presentation and reading by Lessing from 1994. | | | Australian Radio Interview - Interview on her novel Mara and Dann, her autobiography and a life in writing and politics. |
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http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Authors/L/Lessing,_Doris
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Arts Spark heads world Booker nominees |
| | Doris Lessing and Ian McEwan have also been nominated. | | | Dame Muriel Spark is among three British authors who have made the shortlist for the inaugural international Booker Prize. | | | McEwan and Margaret Atwood are the only nominees to have previously won the main Booker Prize. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4277897.stm
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| | INPOPA -- Poetry, Solitaire and Playing Cards |
| | In our first title we offer new work from renowned literary figure Doris Lessing, an up-and-coming writer Robert Twigger, and experienced travel photographer TH Benson. |
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| | Doris Lessing Interview with Don Swaim |
| | Doris Lessing, author of The Fifth Child, The Golden Notebook, and several other pieces of literature, comes to talk with Don Swaim about her start as a writer, the difficulties that she encountered, and what she has done to challenge herself as a writer. | | | Listen to the Doris Lessing interview with Don Swaim, 1988 | | | Listen to the Doris Lessing interview with Don Swaim, 1992 |
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http://wiredforbooks.org/dorislessing
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| | BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Doris Lessing |
| | Lessing's writing has always been autobiographical, focusing on her passionate engagement with social and political concerns. | | | You will need RealPlayer to access these clips. | | | BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Doris Lessing |
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