多丽丝·莱辛是当代英国最重要的作家之一,被誉为继伍尔夫之后最伟大的女性作家,并几次获得诺贝尔文学奖提名以及多个世界级文学奖项,其风格独特多变,思想深邃,观点犀利,见解新颖,极具挑战性。本书是关于莱辛作品的哲学思想及其小说形式联系的评论,试图探讨她的生命哲学理念及其小说形式的关系,对莱辛提出的漩涡与喷泉、“双姓同体的人”和“大家人物”、流动的时间、比喻的世界和苏菲主义进行了精辟的分析。
Foreword / 1
Acknowledgements / 1
Abbreviations / 1
Introduction / 1
Chapter One Construction of a Fictional World / 48
1. Linearity vs. Circularity / 50
2. Whirlpool vs. Fountain / 67
Chapter Two Wholeness of Man / 90
1. Androgyny / 91
2. Everyone Figure / 113
Chapter Three Time in a Flux / 128
1. Present, Past and Future / 129
2. True Self in la Duree / 144
Chapter Four Metaphorical World / 161
1. Intertextuality / 161
2. Symbolism / 176
Chapter Five Sufic Transcendence / 190
1. Sufism, Sufi and the Forms of the Novels / 191
2. Sufi Teaching Stories and Dreams / 208
Conclusion / 217
Notes / 227
Bibliography / 237
Appendix Ⅰ List of Doris Lessing's books by year / 251
Appendix Ⅱ Chronology of major events in Doris Lessing's life / 257
Appendix Ⅲ My papers on Doris Lessing published in Chinese / 261