'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without. What is the use of it? It is as if that old war is in my own memory, my own consciousness.' The first book after Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa: 'Here I still am, trying to get out from under that monstrous legacy, trying to … mehrget free.' With the publication of 'Alfred and Emily' she has done just that.
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Doris Lessing was the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature and is one of the most important writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing' was published in 1950, and since then her international reputation has flourished. Among her other celebrated novels are 'The Golden Notebook', 'The Summer Before the Dark', and 'Memoirs of a Survivor'. Her most recent works include two volumes of autobiography, 'Under my Skin' and 'Walking in the Shade', and her most recent novel is 'The Cleft'. weniger