摘要

多丽丝.莱辛（1919- ）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。2007年，她更是在88岁高龄之际夺得了诺贝尔文学奖，她及她的作品也就因此被更多的人们听说、了解和研究。
莱辛所著的第一部小说就是她的《青草在歌唱》，书中的女主人玛丽的经历大多数来自于莱辛在非洲的生活经历。我们从中可以发现其中有很多莱辛的影子。她并没有局限于自传式的创作，而是通过《青草在歌唱》这部小说的写作，表达了她自己心中的对于非洲、女性和整个人类的看法。
论文分为五个部分：第一部分主要介绍莱辛的人生经历以及简介《青草在歌唱》这部小说的主要内容；第二部分是文献综述部分。第三部分从人生经历相似性的角度分析这本小说；第四部分分析为什么作者用经历写成小说。结论部分总结了论文的内容。

关键词：人生经历, 青草在歌唱, 相似性, 小说创作

ABSTRACT

Doris Lessing (1919- ), considered to be the greatest female writer since Woolf, is one of the most widely recognized English contemporary novelists. Winning the Nobel Prize of Literature at the age of 88 in 2007 makes herself and her works well known to more people all around the world.
The Grass is Singing is her first novel. The experiences of Mary are mostly from Lessing’s Africa experiences. Lessing’s trace can be found in this book. She did not trap herself in autobiographical creation instead she chose The Grass Is Singing to express her inner attitudes towards Africa, women and human beings.
There are five parts in this thesis. The first part gives a brief introduction of Doris Lessing and her life experiences and her novel The Grass Is Singing. The second part is the literature review part. The third part analyzes the similarity of life experiences. The fourth part discusses why author write her experiences as a novel. On conclusion, summarize this thesis.

Key words: life experiences, The Grass Is Singing, similarity, novel creation

1  Introduction

Considered a powerful writer of literary world, Doris (May) Lessing has become the most widely recognized and most seriously contemporary woman novelist, especially since she won The Nobel Prize for Literature of 2007. A British novelist John west once said “I can not imagine people who read modern fiction have no idea of the importance of Doris Lessing’s works.”
She was born in Kermanshah, Persia (now Iran) on October 22, 1919. Both of her parents were British: her father, who had been crippled in World War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia; his mother had been a nurse. Doris moved with her family to the British Colony in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1925 as her father was disillusioned with business life in the East and lured by a seemingly golden opportunity for a promising life in Rhodesia where cheap lands were offered.