Why do I like Doris Lessing? Hard to say. It's not just because she wrote one of the most insightful books on the male and female psyches - "The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five". And another book ("The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire") that goes to the heart of human feelings and how addictive they can be to both the manipulated and the manipulators; no, it's not just that. I like her because she was frank, down to earth, curious, restless, strong and independent. In short an exceptional individual. So exceptional that ultimately only she the INDIVIDUAL mattered - not her race, not her gender, not her politics.
@shiva321987
10 жыл бұрын
Beautiful comment. I feel that you've put my thoughts down better than I, with my chronic laziness of the mind, could have done. I see Doris Lessing's work now in a new light, one shed on it by your comment. Thank you.
@KonstanzArrens
10 жыл бұрын
Shiva Karthik You're welcome. Thank you for your gracious reply.
@futon2345
Жыл бұрын
How could you not like her?
@JH-do8kt
Жыл бұрын
Do you think that Doris would have agreed with you that "only she the INDIVIDUAL mattered - not her race, not her gender, not her politics"?
@blessOTMA
6 жыл бұрын
"Something about politics make people mad". One's politics is dictated by where we put our fear. So, indeed.
@PatReesby
8 жыл бұрын
A marvellous documentary. I am currently reading a biography of Doris Lessing, and re-reading the Children of Violence series which had a huge effect on me in the 1970s.
@gilliankrantz
9 жыл бұрын
I alway feel proud to be a woman when I read Doris Lessing.
@seetajaiswar3403
7 жыл бұрын
Inspiring and bold personality. Hats off to the lady.
@buziodrozib5306
5 жыл бұрын
I accidentally read The African Stories (to be honest I took the book to the toilet to see what it was about)... and then... I could not stop reading:) and was very deeply moved by almost all of the stories. Then kept on reading. Happy there is so much more. And kind of sorry that I do not write myself, I am not so brave I suppose.
@J_Gamble
3 жыл бұрын
Grateful for this upload. Thank you.
@finn3242
Жыл бұрын
I've been desperately seeking out that 1971 BBC interview with Doris Lessing featured in this documentary (first seen about four minutes into this video) but have had zero luck. Anyone who knows where the full interview is available to be watched, please let me know!
@keymeter1917
Жыл бұрын
I really!), enjoyed this. What an interesting lady. I've read & still read many of her works. But I'd always shied away from hearing her speak (I often do this with my favourite writers, actors & artists).
@cfttify
4 ай бұрын
Enchantingly raw
@blackbird5634
3 жыл бұрын
Everyone can handle a crisis, it's the daily grind that kills most of us.
@Aveen3
8 жыл бұрын
she was born in iran not africa
@JH-do8kt
Жыл бұрын
Is this all you got out of her life: where she was born?
@pocketsand6776
2 жыл бұрын
only 20 seconds in and "born in Africa"? She was born in Iran and moved to South Rhodesia when she was 6.
@JH-do8kt
Жыл бұрын
Is this all you got out of her life: where she was born?
@bahmanghahremani6080
5 жыл бұрын
At the beginning of this documentary, it erroneously states that she was born in Africa. She wasn't. She was born in Iran.
@JH-do8kt
Жыл бұрын
Is this all you got out of her life: where she was born?
@behroozshahdaftar4209
Жыл бұрын
@@JH-do8kt No, it's not. I wasn't writing a summary or synopsis; simply correcting a factual error.
@lfibbs
10 жыл бұрын
Nicely produced video but wasn't Doris born in Iran, not Africa?
@JeremySimms
10 жыл бұрын
Right at the beginning it says she was born in Persia - that's the 'old Iran', right?
@shill700
9 жыл бұрын
Jeremy Simms yes, but you could have googled it yourself...
@JeremySimms
9 жыл бұрын
I knew it; was trying to be diplomatic. It's a custom.
@worldpeace8299
9 жыл бұрын
born in Iran, moved to Africa as a small child
@JeremySimms
9 жыл бұрын
her writing about life in the former Rhodesia is fantastic.
@deanturner9959
8 жыл бұрын
whats that presenter called?
@SophyaAgain
8 жыл бұрын
+Dean Turner (Dean of London) Alan Yentob, I think. The presenter of BBC series 'Imagine'.
@Gabrielcezar94
7 жыл бұрын
What's that piano piece in the very end?
@DeLightToDeLirium
6 жыл бұрын
Bartok, 6 Romanian Dances
@DarlikaDor
4 жыл бұрын
26:42 - 29:05
@michaelboylan5308
5 жыл бұрын
A superb film but it is just ridiculous to say that Lessing is the last philosophical novelist, She is not a philosophical novelist at all, Her novels are insignificant compared to those of Iris Murdoch who was a philosopher who also didnt write philosophical novels, The Nobel Prize signifies nothing,Pearl Buck won it as did B,Russell and W,Churchill, Those who didnt win it include Tolstoy Proust Joyce Ibsen Lawrence Murdoch Borges
@JH-do8kt
Жыл бұрын
Do you think Doris would agree with you?
@blacksmithsligo
5 жыл бұрын
Doris Lessing was one of the most interesting minds of the past 100 years. So how do you make such a boring documentary about a wonderfully irreverent person?
@JackyTMusic
3 жыл бұрын
Haha look at John Cleese teaching sex ed to get ya answer
@JH-do8kt
Жыл бұрын
Make another one yourself. Let's see how you do
@blacksmithsligo
Жыл бұрын
@@JH-do8kt well I couldn't do a lot worse could I.
@JH-do8kt
Жыл бұрын
@@blacksmithsligo Which books of hers were your favorites?
@blacksmithsligo
Жыл бұрын
@@JH-do8kt I've never thought of things in those terms. I love like differences in things as their own merit. As such I find compressions redundant.
@sandyrickard994
2 жыл бұрын
I wonder what she would have made of these woke times of the 2020's, rubbish or pearls. I think I can guess
@baliksupper6043
3 жыл бұрын
“Born in Africa “is such an ignorant statement,where in Africa?
@pocketsand6776
2 жыл бұрын
She was born in Iran I believe and moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) at age 6.
@JH-do8kt
Жыл бұрын
Is her birthplace the most important thing about her?
@rudeb7
3 ай бұрын
Sighs (size)
@verysillypenguin
5 жыл бұрын
What does that writer mean about her books feel "home made?" Sounds like pretentious, jealous git to me.
@JackyTMusic
3 жыл бұрын
She means that they haven't been corporatised by an editing style prevalent in big book publishing
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