The Experimental Writing In Doris Lessing's Fiction

Doris Lessing is considered one of the most important living writers. She wasnominated for Man Booker International Prize four times. And she was named forNobel Literature Prize continuously. Doris Lessing is denominated as a evergreen treein the literary world of Britain. After Lessing published her first fiction The Grass isSinging in the year 1950, she attempted in her next fiction, and as a game that sheplayed for the sake of pleasure. Reviewers have recognized the connection betweenher output fiction and her stature as a writer, they are opt to view her fictions as beingentirely. However, in fact, Lessing's experiment in fiction is an organic and continuingprocess, dating back to her early novels. The aim of the thesis is to trace the wholeroute of the experiment, and to demonstrate the variety of experiments the writer hasundertaken during the course by close reading of those novels that mark significantstages in her development. The thesis also seeks to prove that one of Lessing'sstrengths as a modern novelist lies in her adventurousness and readiness to experiment.Besides I hope to show that those experiments are a necessary and inevitableconsequence of her search for literary forms that will allow for a more radical critiqueof Western culture and on a larger scale, of the modern world we live in. There arefive parts in this thesis. The first chapter presents the status of Doris Lessing as aliterary figure and makes it clear that the writer's experiments into fiction is a gradualand ongoing process. The second chapter discusses the experiment in fiction'snarrative technique. The third chapter shows that how lessing experimented infiction's style. The fourth chapter discusses the composition technique that lessingexperimented in her fiction. The last chapter shows the background of Lessing'sexperiment and the fundamental characteristic in her fictions. On conclusion, thethesis reaffirms that Doris Lessing's experiment into fiction is an organic andprogressive process that bears powerful witness to the writer's untiring enthusiasm forexperiment.