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Doris Lessing wins: but not, of course, for the right reasons.(CULTURE WATCH)
TELEVISION has its moments, and one of them was a few days ago when an unsuspecting Doris Lessing returned home from the shops to find the press assembled in front of her house, and hear that she had just won the Nobel Prize. "Oh Christ!" was her immediate reaction. She went on to grouch that she had won "all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one"--which is pretty much true, as she is 88, author of over 40 books, and still writing. Like her words, her face expressed neither gratitude nor pleasure at the award. She stomped off indoors in what seemed a sour mood.
Showing this scene on its news program, the BBC added a clip from the archive dating back to the late ...
- Doris Lessing's enquiring mind at work.(Time Bites: Views and Reviews)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Wade, Stephen July 1, 2005 700+ words
Time Bites: Views and Reviews. Doris Lessing. Fourth Estate. [pounds sterling...pages. ISBN 0-00-717985-5. When Doris Lessing gave a speech on receiving the Prince...writing, now such a regenerated genre. Doris Lessing's most lucid and urgent argument...
- Spiritual Exploration in the Works of Doris Lessing.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Utopian Studies Jacobs, Naomi January 1, 2000 700+ words
...Spiritual Exploration in the Works of Doris Lessing. Contributions to the Study of Science...essays on spirituality in novelist Doris Lessing's substantial life work, utopia...thoroughly in works such as Shadia Fahim's Doris Lessing: Sufi Equilibrium and the Form of...
- From the Margins of Empire: Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer.
- Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies Cowden, Stephen January 1, 2001 700+ words
...Margins of Empire: Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer. By Louise Yelin...life away from her native Australia, Doris Lessing having assumed an 'English' identity...about gender. Yelin's discussion of Doris Lessing is more rounded and focuses on the...
- Doris Lessing sounds human heart in worthy novella collection.(Milwaukee...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Gould, Whitney January 14, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Whitney Gould ``The Grandmothers'' by Doris Lessing; HarperCollins ($23.95) ___ At her best, Doris Lessing is a compelling storyteller with a fierce intelligence, a keen ear for hypocrisy and a sure grasp of history's cruel...
- Doris Lessing: The Poetics of Change. (book reviews)
- Magazine article from: CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction Pickering, Jean September 22, 1998 700+ words
Doris Lessing: The Poetics of Change Gayle Greene Ann Arbor: University of Michigan...in paper 1997. 277 pp. This book reminded me of the great pleasure Doris Lessing's work has given me over a period of nearly forty years. In the...
- DORIS LESSING'S REPORT FROM AFGHANISTAN
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Christina Robb, Globe Staff December 11, 1987 700+ words
...WORDS. A Firsthand Account of the Afghan Resistance, by Doris Lessing. Vintage. 173 pp. $5.95 (paperback). At last, disarmament...get to them, to say nothing of guns and missiles. When Doris Lessing visited several rebel captains and their troops a little...
- DORIS LESSING PONDERS MOB PSYCHOLOGY
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Christina Robb, Globe Staff January 1, 1988 700+ words
PRISONS WE CHOOSE TO LIVE INSIDE, by Doris Lessing. Harper & Row. 82 pp. $6.95 (paperback). "Recently," Doris Lessing writes in "The Wind Blows Away Our Words," her book about the Afghan war that I reviewed three weeks ago, "Paul...
- Doris Lessing's truthful fiction.(BOOKS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times March 7, 2004 700+ words
...powers, a withering of the imagination - in short, the disappearance of the creative energy that puts a spring in the step - Doris Lessing's latest book vigorously suggests otherwise. Now in her eighties but with the zest of a much younger writer, Mrs. Lessing...
