Doris Lessing on Sufism. Basingstoke, UK/New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan/St. In 1924, the family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she grew up, as her father tried to make a living as a farmer. Tras su gran éxito, la novela feminista El cuaderno dorado, de 1962, cuya estructura se presenta también como innovadora, siguió escribiendo narrativa y llenó el vacío que en su existencia había dejado el materialismo histórico con un gran interés por el sufismo, al cual conoció a través de su maestro y amigo Idries Shah, quien además de resultar una decisiva influencia en su literatura a partir de los años 70, … She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. She also became interested in … Once asked what she considered her foremost works she answered that it was the five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argus: Archives, written between 1979-1983. Galin, Müge (1997).

Doris Lessing, UFOs and sufism On November 17 British author Doris Lessing (1919-2013) died, aged 94, at her home in London. Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription.

Beginning in 1979, Doris Lessing published a series of science fiction novels, and in the 80s published several books under the pen name Jane Somers.

This article was first published in openDemocracy on 12 October 2007. These and other Sufi tenets informed such works as The Four-Gated City (1969), The Memoirs of a Survivor(1974), and the Canopus in Argos: Archives series (1979-83), among others; Lessing applied them to the lives of her characters, holding out the possibility of individual and global transformation and amelioration. The core of Doris Lessing's work evokes the raw, shared human experience of protagonists who embrace life with gusto, even heroism.

She identifies Western admiration of Sufism since the 1960s as ‘a Sufi craze,’ and ‘Sufi bandwagon’. Alfred and Emily (2008) is a mix of fiction and memoir centred on her parents. Politically, in the 1980s she supported the anti-Soviet mujahideen in Afghanistan. In transmitting the Sufi wisdom that she received from Idries Shah, Doris Lessing profoundly influenced the way her readers think. Retrieved 2011-03-24.

Galin, Müge (1997). Among her works is Between East and West : Sufism in the Novels of Doris Lessing (SUNY Press, 1997) She went on to call it "a seminal book of the century, even a watershed."

From the earliest age, Lessing rebelled against the strict Edwardian standards of her parents. Fahim, Shadia S. (1995). A fundamental concept in Sufism is the idea of the seeker having direct access to God, with no intermediary; that is, inner transformation can only be experienced, not discussed. Further reading. Doris Lessing; Lessing at the Lit Cologne leeterary festival in 2006. The Impact of Sufism on the Fiction of Doris Lessing: Amazon.es: Nagi Mona: Libros en idiomas extranjeros Between East and West: Sufism in the Novels of Doris Lessing. "The Four Levels of Detachment in Doris Lessing’s Shikasta" (PDF). Perrakis, Phyllis Sternberg (2004). Born in Persia in 1919, Doris Lessing grew up in the rugged bush of Zimbabwe, then the British Crown colony of Southern Rhodesia.

Müge Galin is lecturer in English at Ohio State University, Columbus.

For Lessing, Sufism was a kind of universal feeling, emotion, a quick fix and an access with no intermediary. Doris Lessing: Sufi Equilibrium and the Form of the Novel.