What is the great tradition that Lessing talk about? Write a brief note.
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By great tradition Lessing is talking about the tradition in connection with literature.It started as an oral tradition which had undergone transaction into printed stories at the present age.Doris Lessing studied about the speeches of some of the recent novel prize winners .Here,she said that almost all the novel prize winners in literature have a very close connection with the great tradition.For instance,the magnificent Orhan Pamuk admitted that his father owns five hundred books and that his talents did not simply come out of thin air,but he was connected with the great tradition.
Another winner V.S.Naipaul mentions that the Indian Vedas were close behind the memory of his family.His father encouraged him to write,and when he got to England he would visit the British Library .So he was close to the great tradition.Lessings also talks about John Coetzee.She says that he not only was close to the great tradition but he himself was the tradition.He taught literature in Cape Town.According to Lessing,inorder to make literature,we must have a close connection with libraries books and traditions.