Much to its author's chagrin, The Golden Notebook instantly became a staple of the feminist movement when it was published in 1962. Doris Lessing's novel deconstructs the life of Anna Wulf, a sometime-Communist and a deeply leftist writer living in postwar London with her small daughter. Anna is battling writer's block, and, it often seems, the damaging chaos of life itself. Th...
Much to its author's chagrin, The Golden Notebook instantly became a staple of the feminist movement when it was published in 1962. Doris Lessing's novel deconstructs the life of Anna Wulf, a sometime-Communist and a deeply leftist writer living in postwar London with her small daughter. Anna is battling writer's block, and, it often seems, the damaging chaos of life itself. The elements that made the book remarkable when it first appeared--extremely candid sexual and psychological descriptions of its characters and a fractured, postmodern structure--are no longer shocking. Nevertheless, The Golden Notebook has retained a great deal of power, chiefly due to its often brutal honesty and the sheer variation and sweep of its prose.
This largely autobiographical work comprises Anna's four notebooks: "a black notebook which is to do with Anna Wulf the writer; a red notebook concerned with politics; a yellow notebook, in which I make stories out of my experience; and a blue notebook which tries to be a diary." In a brilliant act of verisimilitude, Lessing alternates between these notebooks instead of presenting each one whole, also weaving in a novel called Free Women, which views Anna's life from the omniscient narrator's point of view. As the novel draws to a close, Anna, in the midst of a breakdown, abandons her dependence on compartmentalization and writes the single golden notebook of the title.
作者简介
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Doris May Lessing, CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as...
Doris May Lessing, CH (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–69), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described her as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny".[2] Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.[3][4][5]
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 British writers since 1945".[6]
'I'm going to make the obvious point that perhaps the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis is conflict. But the essence of living now, fully, not blocking off to what goes on, is conflict. In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they’ve chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.’
‘Would you say you were better or worse for your experience with me?’
‘But now you are back in the consulting room. Of course I’m better. But that’s a clinical term. I’m afraid of being better at the cost of living inside myth and dreams. Psychoanalysis stands or falls on whether it makes better human beings, morally better,... (查看原文)
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0 有用 宝宝TWO 2018-01-12 10:24:02
温和的文笔，触动人心，可是，不那么有趣
0 有用 喵了个咪的 2007-05-18 11:19:37
其中的女权概念只是片面，更突出的主题是什么我还没总结出来，可能是悲观的东西
0 有用 1585 2021-05-07 11:38:57
4.5。是一部值得深挖的作品。但是我读起来十分吃力，可能看不出那么多东西，觉得有点浪费了这样的作品，但又没有勇气再读第二遍了😂
0 有用 ZZ 2021-03-08 11:22:51
历时两个多星期才听完了这本长篇。有的章节很喜欢，有的章节却感觉很难读下去。如果作者把这本书分成几个短小的笔记本，感觉可能可读性能强一点。
0 有用 Lune小月亮 2014-04-01 22:56:28
真是没读过这么难看的书哼
0 有用 Signora Python 2022-12-08 07:01:55 美国
读了将近十年的书，一边后悔十年前没读下去，一边想十年后会不会再读一遍，又有不同感受。这次把有声书也听了，Julia Stevenson 的版本，近乎完美。但是因为其特殊的架构，还是必须要结合字书才行
0 有用 佳乐洁管状牙膏 2022-02-15 01:46:19
近几年能够看到有金色笔记影子都书影作品大概只有hate sussi
0 有用 1585 2021-05-07 11:38:57
4.5。是一部值得深挖的作品。但是我读起来十分吃力，可能看不出那么多东西，觉得有点浪费了这样的作品，但又没有勇气再读第二遍了😂
0 有用 永思（闭关中） 2021-03-30 15:01:56
2021已读013 洋洋洒洒六百多页，读得筋疲力尽、人仰马翻。读完最大的感想是写作者还是不应该太高估自己作品的意义，无论是内容还是形式都不要过于沉湎于一厢情愿的构想，毕竟不是每部作品都值得读者去反复研究，去仔细体会钻研作者字里行间的隐藏含义。仅从第一遍阅读的观感来看，作者在形式方面走得太远，试图用几个彼此平行又嵌套的故事来相互映衬，从而给读者一种整体的印象，这个想法本身很好，但落到实际内容上，几个... 2021已读013 洋洋洒洒六百多页，读得筋疲力尽、人仰马翻。读完最大的感想是写作者还是不应该太高估自己作品的意义，无论是内容还是形式都不要过于沉湎于一厢情愿的构想，毕竟不是每部作品都值得读者去反复研究，去仔细体会钻研作者字里行间的隐藏含义。仅从第一遍阅读的观感来看，作者在形式方面走得太远，试图用几个彼此平行又嵌套的故事来相互映衬，从而给读者一种整体的印象，这个想法本身很好，但落到实际内容上，几个故事本身都不完整也不精彩（精彩的部分大概只有女主的若干梦境），经过裁剪、穿插后堆放到一起也并没有取得更好的效果，只让人感到困惑。也许多读几遍能更好地体会到作者的用心，体察到几个故事彼此之间的联系和细微差别的意义，奈何书的行文过于拖沓，沉溺于咀嚼个人情绪，让人无法有重读的兴趣。 (展开)
0 有用 ZZ 2021-03-08 11:22:51
历时两个多星期才听完了这本长篇。有的章节很喜欢，有的章节却感觉很难读下去。如果作者把这本书分成几个短小的笔记本，感觉可能可读性能强一点。