By Doris LessingThe Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 On not winning the Nobel PrizeI am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred remains of fires where, in '56, there...
Doris Lessing: On not winning the Nobel Prize Nobel Lecture December 7, 2007 1 I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest. Yesterday I drove through miles of stumps, and charred ...
Lessing was awarded the Nobel for her writing on the"female experience." The Swedish academy's announcement was stunning even by the standards of Nobel judges, who have been known for such surprises asAustria's Elfriede Jelinek andItaly's Dario Fo. Lessing, less than two weeks short of her...
Why did Lessing say her winning the Nobel Prize was "a bloody disaster"? A. She was too excited to go on writing her novels. B. Her peaceful life was disturbed by the increased media. C. Many people came to ask her for advice on writing. D. The Swedish Ambassador often came to pre...
【题目】Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has said winning the Nobel Prize in 2007 had been a "bloody disaster".T he increased media interest in her has meant that writing a full novel was next to impossible, she said.Lessing, 88, also said she would probably now begiving up ...
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To the the present author, Lessing's prize winning has proved the authority and justice of literary Nobel Prize. But to Chinese literature, Nobel Prize should not be regarded as the only criterion to judge its literary quality. That Chinese writers have failed to be awarded this prize has ...
Lessing’s earliest explorations of innovative form, the novel is structured as the interweaving of four journals kept by the protagonist, Anna Wulf, another autobiographical character, who uses the notebooks to unravel the tangled skein of her experience. With its focus on female identity and ...
[1] Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest ever person to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.[2][3][4] In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British Literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest...
Despite winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Doris Lessing has received relatively little critical attention. One of the reasons for this is that Lessing has spent much of her lifetime and her long published writing career crossing both national and ideological borders. This essay collection refle...