Frasi di Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
Data di nascita: 22. Ottobre 1919
Data di morte: 17. Novembre 2013
Altri nomi:Дорис Лессинг, Doris May Lessing
Doris May Lessing, nata Tayler , è stata una scrittrice britannica. Ha vinto il premio Nobel per la letteratura 2007 con la seguente motivazione: «cantrice dell'esperienza femminile che con scetticismo, passione e potere visionario ha messo sotto esame una civiltà divisa».
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„Sof'ja Tolstoja deve aver suddiviso i suoi ultimi anni tra quelli «prima di Čertkov» e quelli «dopo Čertkov». Abbiamo avuto numerose opportunità di studiare le azioni degli ideologi, ma Vladimir Čertkov fu un fenomeno piuttosto nuovo, e probabilmente l'incapacità di Sof'ja di tener testa a quest'uomo fu in parte dovuta alla difficoltà di classificarlo: era religioso? Certo, si dedicava al bene, come un fanatico a essere sinceri. Ma Čertkov voleva un'unica cosa: dominare Tolstoj, e in questo ebbe successo.“
— Doris Lessing
p. 7
„All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies.“
— Doris Lessing
Context: All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.
„Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this:
"You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.“
— Doris Lessing
Context: Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this:
"You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society."
Introduction (1971)
