Year: 2022 | Month: June | Volume 8 | Issue 1
A Study on Oriental Influences of Doris Lessing Novels
DOI:10.30954/2454-4132.1.2022.22
Abstract:
Doris Lessing (1919) is one of the most powerful and significant novelists to have emerged on the international literary scene in the last four decades. As is the case with many great novelists, Mrs. Lessing’s life is intimately linked with her art and her total novelistic development. Born of British parents in Persia, now Iran, in 1919, Lessing’s childhood was characterized by mobility and a variety of experiences. Her family moved to what was then Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, to take up farming in a small town of Banket. Within her family, Doris was a “rebelin residence”. She had a very unhappy childhood because of her parents’ psychological and financial struggles. She had no formal education after the age of fourteen. As a result, her exposure to knowledge entirely consisted of independent extensive reading of books ranging from Balzac, Stendhal, Dostoevsky to Havelock Ellis. As she herself commented later.
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