书名：The Golden Notebook  金色笔记
作者：Doris Lessing 多丽丝·莱辛
出版社名称：Harper Perennial 
出版时间：1999
语种：英文
ISBN：9780060931407
商品尺寸：13.5 x 3.8 x 20.3 cm
包装：平装
页数：672

The Golden Notebook《金色笔记》是一本“自由女性”安娜的成长纪录，由一个故事、五本笔记构成。通过这部“跨国度的百科全书”，作者莱辛描摹了整个表面平平淡淡、骨子里混乱无序的世界。每部分之间依次插入黑、红、黄、蓝四种笔记，涉及殖民主义、种族主义与男女间的爱情，兼具感情与知性。莱辛曾声称，《金色笔记》是“一次突破形式的尝试，一次突破某些意识观念并予以超越的尝试。”
本书为英文原版，适合有一定英语基础的文学爱好者。
推荐理由：
1.作者多丽丝·莱辛获2007年诺贝尔文学奖，四十年来被尊为女权偶像人物的英国文学老祖母，与伍尔芙并称“双星”；
2.是引起争议的鸿篇巨制，更是作者摘得诺贝尔奖桂冠的充分理由，诺贝尔委员会评价“一部先锋作品，是二十世纪审视男女关系的佳作”；
3.《华尔街日报》评选五部有关友谊的小说佳作之一；
4.从情人到母亲的故事，被全球数百万人当做女性独立的教科书；
5.英文原版，内容无删减，从语言以日常口语居多，浅显而明快；
6.书后另附作者访谈及推荐阅读等相关内容。

First published in 1962, Doris Lessing’s brilliant work defined a generation of women disillusioned by a world that relegated them to second-class citizenship. Lessing’s book became a “feminist bible” for women of the ’60s, taking on the ideas of female sexuality, professional responsibility, friendship, political disenchantment, and personal betrayal. Juliet Stevenson gives a no-nonsense yet deeply sensitive portrayal of writer Anna Wulf, who is trying to keep herself from falling apart by keeping four notebooks—black for her writing experiences, red for her politics, yellow for her relationships and emotions, and blue for daily accounts. As Anna explores her life, Stevenson’s sharp, intelligent narration clarifies each thoughtful comment, each personal failure, and each triumph. Stevenson’s impeccable performance makes Lessing’s literary classic a timeless treasure. 

Review
“The Golden Notebook is Doris Lessing’s most important work and has left its mark upon the ideas and feelings of a whole generation of women.” — Elizabeth Hardwick,New York Times Book Review
“The most absorbing and exciting piece of new fiction I have read in a decade; it moves with the beat of our time, and it is true.”—Irving Howe,New Republic
“No ordinary work of fiction… The technique, in a word, is brilliant.” —Saturday Review 

The Golden Notebook《金色笔记》这部小说先有一个轮廓，或者说框架，即《自由女性》，这是一部约六万字的中篇小说，可以独立成篇，但又分成五部分，被黑红黄蓝四本笔记的章节分隔开。四本笔记的作者是《自由女性》的主人公安娜·沃尔夫。她采用四本而不是一本笔记本记事，是因为她意识到有必要将笔记所记的内容逐一分开，以免引起混乱、无序，乃至精神崩溃。来自内部和外部的压力导致四本笔记的记事停止；结束处都画有一条粗粗的黑线。四本笔记的记录结束后，从支离破碎中产生了一部新的笔记，那就是《金色笔记》。
《金色笔记》内容包罗万象：资本主义、社会主义、种族主义、殖民主义、女权主义，等等，都是作者考问或审察的对象；它的布局又像一个迷宫：“自由女性”为经，黑红黄蓝四本笔记为纬，编织成一张扑朔迷离的网，传统小说的叙述秩序与连贯性在这里已荡然无存；书中的人物一会儿是安娜，一会儿是爱拉，还有第三者的影子，你得理清“她们”之间的关系，判断“她们”是女主人公外在的自我，还是内在的自我，抑或只是分裂的人格的某一部分。

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine reviles part of her own experience. And in the blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna tries to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook.
The shape of this novel is as follows: There is a skeleton, or frame, called Free Women, which is a conventional short novel, about 60,000 words long, and which could stand by itself. But it is divided into five sections and separated by stages of the four Notebooks, Black, Red, Yellow and Blue. The Notebooks are kept by Anna Wulf, a central character of Free Women. She keeps four, and not one because, as she recognizes, she has to separate things off from each other, out of fear of chaos, of formlessness — of breakdown. Pressures, inner and outer, end the Notebooks; a heavy black line is drawn across the page of one after another. But now that they are finished, from their fragments can come something new, The Golden Notebook. 
Throughout the Notebooks people have discussed, theorized, dogmatized, labelled, compartmented — sometimes in voices so general and representative of the time that they are anonymous, you could put names to them like those in the old Morality Plays, Mr Dogma and Mr I-am-Free-Because-I-Belong-Nowhere, Miss I-Must-Have-Love-and-Happiness and Mrs I-Have-to-be-Good-At-Everything-I-Do, Mr Where-is-a-Real-Woman? and Miss Where-is-a-Real-Man?, Mr I’m-Mad-Because-They-Say-I-Am, and Miss Life-Through-Experiencing-Everything, Mr I-Make-Revolution-and-Therefore-I-Am, and Mr and Mrs If-We-Deal-Very-Well-With-This-Small-Problem-Then-Perhaps-We-Can- Forget-We-Daren’t-Look-at-The-Big-Ones. But they have also reflected each other, been aspects of each other, given birth to each other’s thoughts and behaviour — are each other, form wholes. In the inner Golden Notebook, things have come together, the divisions have broken down, there is formlessness with the end of fragmentation — the triumph of the second theme, which is that of unity. Anna and Saul Green the American “break down”. They are crazy, lunatic, mad — what you will. They “break down” into each other, into other people, break through the false patterns they have made of their pasts, the patterns and formulas they have made to shore up themselves and each other, dissolve. They hear each other’s thoughts, recognize each other in themselves. Saul Green, the man who has been envious and destructive of Anna, now supports her, advises her, gives her the theme for her next book, Free Women — an ironical title, which begins: “The two women were alone in the London flat.” And Anna, who has been jealous of Saul to the point of insanity, possessive and demanding, gives Saul the pretty new notebook, The Golden Notebook, which she has previously refused to do, gives him the theme for his next book, writing in it the first sentence: “On a dry hillside in Algeria a soldier watched the moonlight glinting on his rifle.” In the inner Golden Notebook, which is written by both of them, you can no longer distinguish between what is Saul and what is Anna, and between them and the other people in the book. 

多丽丝·莱辛（Doris Lessing），英国女作家，被誉为继伍尔芙之后伟大的女性作家，她是迄今为止获奖时zui年长的女性诺贝尔获奖者，也是近二十年来世界文坛中卓越的作家之一。莱辛一生获奖无数，曾获得英国科恩文学奖、西班牙阿斯图里亚斯王子奖、国际加泰罗尼亚奖，还有都彭金笔杰出贡献奖，以及其他一些国际性的文学奖项等。目前定居伦敦北部。代表作《金色笔记》《青草在歌唱》等。
Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia in 1919 and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books—novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays, and the winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her most recent works include the novelMara and Dann and two volumes of autobiography entitledUnder My SkinandWalking in the Shade.

Introduction 1993
Introduction 1971
FREE WOMEN: 1
Anna meets her friend Molly in the summer of 1957 after a separation
THE NOTEBOOKS

FREE WOMEN: 2
Two visits, some telephone calls and a tragedy
THE NOTEBOOKS

FREE WOMEN: 3
Tommy adjusts himself to being blind while the older people try to help him
THE NOTEBOOKS

FREE WOMEN: 4
Anna and Mollyinfluence Tommy, for the better. Marion leaves Richard. Anna does not feel herself
THE NOTEBOOKS

THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOKS

FREE WOMEN: 5
Molly gets married and Anna has an affair

About Doris Lessing

Free Women: 1
ANNA MEETS HER FRIEND MOLLY IN THE SUMMER OF 1957 AFTER A SEPARATION…
The two women were alone in the London flat. 
“The point is,” said Anna, as her friend came back from the telephone on the landing, “the point is, that as far as I can see, everything’s cracking up.”
Molly was a woman much on the telephone. When it rang she had just enquired: “Well, what’s the gossip?” Now she said, “That’s Richard, and he’s coming over. It seems today’s his only free moment for the next month. Or so he insists.”
“Well I’m not leaving,” said Anna.
“No, you stay just where you are.”
Molly considered her own appearance—she was wearing trousers and a sweater, both the worse for wear. “He’ll have to take me as I come,” she concluded, and sat down by the window. “He wouldn’t say what it’s about