多丽丝·莱辛的处女作《野草在歌唱》出版于1950年,以反英帝国殖民统治为主题,是对当时风起云涌的民族解放和独立运动的共鸣,引起极大关注。小说主人公玛丽自幼生长于落后贫困的非洲南部,虽是白人殖民者,但却过着无异于黑人的寒碜生活。小说以主人公玛丽为黑人仆人所杀的“爆炸性”新闻为故事开端,采用倒叙的手法,向读者展示了一个在不幸的童年和婚姻中不断被伤害、扭曲以至最后走向死亡的白人女性。女主人公的毁灭远非人为谋杀那么简单,而是个人与社会负面影响共同作用下的牺牲品。通过对玛丽 Doris Lessing’s debut “Wild Grass is Singing” was published in 1950. With the theme of anti-British colonial rule, it resonated with the surging national liberation and independence movement of the time, arousing great concern. The protagonist of the novel Mary, who grew up in the poor southern Africa after her childhood, lived as a cold-blooded black man living as a white colonist. The story begins with “explosive” news by the hero Mary as a black servant, using flashbacks to show the reader a white woman who continues to be harmed, distorted, and eventually dying in the unfortunate childhood and marriage. The destruction of the heroine is much more than a simple murder, but a victim of the combined effect of personal and social negative influences. Pass to Mary