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多丽丝·莱辛(1919—),英国著名女作家。2007年,莱辛获得了诺贝尔文学奖,成为第11位获得诺贝尔文学奖的女性作家。莱辛是位多产的作家,单是短篇小说就达百余篇,其中不乏佳作。短篇小说《一个未婚男人的传奇故事》(以下简称为《故事》)发表于1972年。故事不仅主题意义深远,也是叙事技巧运用臻于成熟的代表之一。《故事》以一个无名黑人女性为讲述者,讲述了自己与英国白人约翰尼一面之缘之后,通过听别人讲故事,自己读报纸和自己的回忆等渠道,越来越能确定这几个片段中涉及的主人公是同一个人,即约翰尼。讲述者以求证的讲述方式逐渐向读者勾勒出约翰尼的人生轨迹:失业白人约翰尼漂泊干非洲中部的大街小巷,做过各种各样的工作,但都没能成
Doris Lessing (1919-), a famous British woman writer. In 2007, Lessing won the Nobel Prize in Literature and became the 11th female writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Lessing is a prolific writer, with more than 100 short stories, many of them masterpieces. The short story “The Legend of a Unmarried Man” (hereinafter referred to as the “Story”) was published in 1972. The story is not only a topic of far-reaching significance, but also one of the most mature representatives of narrative techniques. The story, with an unnamed black woman as a narrator, telling her about her connection with the British white Johnny, is getting more and more sure of the passages by listening to stories, reading newspapers and her own memories Involved in the protagonist is the same person, that is, Johnny. The narrator gradually delineated Johnny’s life trajectory to the reader in the form of confirmation: Johnny, a jobless unemployed, wandered through the streets of central Africa and did all kinds of work, but neither did