D. H. Lawrence
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Lawrence dénonce dans cet écrit sur l'art la maladie charnelle dont, selon lui, la Beauté est atteinte. Les arts y jetteraient un voile pudique en refusant de représenter le corps, surtout dans sa dimension sexuelle, et se spiritualiseraient en choisissant le paysage pour objet. L'art serait devenu ennuyeux, dénué de passion et de sensualité. Lawrence oppose ici les maîtres anglais, de Constable à Turner, aux Impressionnistes français qui, s'ils n'échappent pas au cliché, ont inventé la lumière, et entretiennent un rapport au corps, hygiénique certes, mais jouisseur. Seul Cézanne avec ses pommes échappe aux limites imposées par l'esprit et à célébrer la matière. Avec verve, ironie et cynisme, D.H. Lawrence plaide ici en faveur d'un art libéré de toute entrave.
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Two sisters - two contrasting love affairs.
Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, becomes deeply involved in a destructive entanglement with the industrialist Gerald Crich.
Ursula, a schoolteacher, embarks upon a happy relationship with alienated intellectual Rupert Birkin.
After a double tragedy for Gerald, the four head to the Austrian Alps for a holiday. There, the two men are confronted by feelings they have for each other, while Gudrun begins an intense friendship with an artist from Dresden.
Enraged, Gerald takes drastic action that will have lifelong consequences for them all.
The book was made into a movie, also called 'Women in Love', in 1969, starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, and Glenda Jackson.
This turbulent tale of love and loss is perfect for fans of E. M. Forster's 'A Room with a View' and the work of Elizabeth Gaskell.
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English author and poet. His books focused on the negative effects of industrialisation and modernity.
However, he is best known for the controversy that surrounded his leading novels, which contained explicit descriptions of sex and sexuality.
His novels include 'Sons and Lovers', 'The Rainbow', 'Women in Love' and 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'.
When 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was first published in full in 1960, long after Lawrence's death, the publisher Penguin was prosecuted under the 1959 Obscene Publications Act. The "not guilty" verdict resulted in greater freedom for writers and publishers. -
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The Rainbow is an epic tale spanning three generations of Brangwens, a family of farmers living in Nottinghamshire around the time of the Industrial Revolution. The tale begins with Tom Brangwen, the very epitome of a rural English farmer leading the old way of life. We follow him as a youth easing in to the rhythm of rural existence. He soon falls in love with Lydia, a Polish immigrant he had hired as a housekeeper, and despite their vast cultural differences, the two marry. Their relationship is, in a word, satisfactory: the two face a language and culture barrier that prevents their minds from ever truly meeting, but they learn to be more or less content with their place in society and in raising their children.
Lydia's child by her first marriage, Anna, becomes the focus of the next part of the novel. She was born in England, and has a fiery and demanding temperament. She falls in love with Will, a nephew of Tom, and the two begin a rocky and difficult marriage. Will, a craftsman and not a farmer, is selfabsorbed, and wants nothing more than for them to live their lives only for each other. But Anna wants to strike out in the world and become a part of society. The two must reconcile their clashing personalities and desires as they raise their many children.
The oldest of their children, Ursula, becomes the focus of the last third-and perhaps most famous-part of the novel. Ursula is a deeply sensual being born in to the Victorian era, a time restrained in morality but exploding in energy and possibility, now worlds away from her grandfather Tom Brangwen's quiet, traditional farming life. She leads a life unimaginable to her rural ancestors: indulging in travel abroad, waiting for marriage and pursuing her physical desires, and even taking on a career-a concept both new and frightening to her family, who are just a generation removed from the era when a woman's life was led at home. Her unhappiness with the contradiction in this new unbridled way of living and the strict social mores of the era becomes the main theme of this last part of the book.
The entire novel takes a frank approach to sexuality and physical desire, with sex portrayed unashamedly as a natural, powerful, pleasurable, and desirable force in relationships. In fact Ursula's story is the most famous part of the novel not just because of her unrestrained physicality and lust, but because she also experiments with a candidlyrealized homosexual affair with one of her teachers. This unheardof treatment of deeply taboo topics was poorly received by Lawrence's Edwardian contemporaries, and the book quickly became the subject of an obscenity trial that resulted in over 1,000 copies being burned and the book being banned in the U.K. for eleven years.
Though its charged portrayal of sexuality is what the book is remembered for, sexuality is only one of the themes Lawrence treats. The novel stands solidly on its rich description of both rural and city life, its wideangled view of change over generations, and its exploration of hope for the human spirit in societies that heave not gently but quickly and violently into new eras. -
Una novela corta de D.H. Lawrence y emblemática de la época en la que vivó en México
"Partió sin miramientos, a horcajadas sobre su fuerte caballo ruano, vestida con un conjunto de amazona de tosco lino, la falda de amazona por encima de los calzones de lino, un lazo carmesí sobre la blusa blanca y un sombrero negro de fieltro por tocado. Con la vista en el horizonte dejó atrás el hogar. Ni siquiera se volvió para despedirse con la mano."
Una mujer de poco más de 30 años, infeliz, casada con un hombre mayor que ella y a menudo ausente, decide coger un caballo e ir en busca de las comunidades indias que viven más allá de las montañas. Es un acto de rebeldía, liberatorio e impulsivo que la lleva a recorrer un camino interior y espiritual hacia una nueva sensibilidad.
La mujer que se fue a caballo fue escrito en 1925 cuando Lawrence acababa de volver de México, etapa de su biografía de la se ha hablado poco pero que representó un momento clave en su poética y en su concepción de la vida.
Una lectura fascinante y conmovedora que nos adentra en un universo erótico y perturbador.
SOBRE EL AUTOR
D.H. Lawrence nace en 1885 en Eastwood, un pueblo del norte de Inglaterra. Después de las primeras experiencias literarias, entre 1922 y 1925 viaja por Australia, Asia
y México. En 1925 vuelve a Europa donde, entre 1926 y 1928, retoma su actividad de escritor y pintor. A esos años se remonta la creación de su gran obra El amante de lady Chatterley que sus contemporáneos pudieron leer en una versión censurada y solo en 1960 en su versión integral. Enfermo de tuberculosis en los últimos años de su vida, viaja en busca de lugares soleados y salubres. Muere en el sur de Francia en 1930.
EXTRACTO
Pensó que aquel matrimonio, de entre todos los matrimonios, sería una aventura. Aunque no porque el hombre en sí le produjese lo que se dice magia. Era un individuo menudo y nervudo, un tanto contrahecho, veinte años mayor que ella, de ojos castaños y pelo entrecano, que había llegado a América desde Holanda hacía años, siendo todavía un chiquillo y apuntando maneras de pordiosero. -
"He lifted her, and seemed to pour her into himself, like wine into a cup (...) So she relaxed, and seemed to melt, to flow into him, as if she were some infinitely warm and precious suffusion filling into his veins, like an intoxicant."
The second novel about the Brangwen family, `Women in Love` (1920), narrows in on sisters Ursula and Gudrun, who, though very close, have a fiery relationship. As teachers at a grammar school they become involved with the school inspector, Rupert Birkin, and the wealthy son of a local colliery owner, Gerald Crich. What is not immediately apparent to them is the deep and complicated relationship between the two men.
D.H. Lawrence wrote the character of Birking as a thinly disguised version of himself while author Katherine Mansfield was his inspiration behind the youngest sister Gudrun. In the well-received BBC miniseries from 2011, Gudrun was portrayed by award-winning actress Rosamund Pike.
LUST Classics is a collection of erotic literary classics. Although some of their content can appear controversial, these titles have been selected due to their historical importance within the field of erotic literature. -
"You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered."
The sophisticated woman Gertrude falls in love with a miner, but only after their wedding does she find out the truth about his poor financial situation. As their marriage grows more toxic by the day Gertrude turn her attention and care towards her sons instead. But her love suffocates them, to the point where they do not know how to be with other women.
Beautifully written with and memorable characters, `Sons and Lovers` is a highly autobiographical portrayal of adolescence and the clash of generations.
LUST Classics is a collection of erotic literary classics. Although some of their content can appear controversial, these titles have been selected due to their historical importance within the field of erotic literature. -
D.H. Lawrence considered 'The Plumed Serpent' his best novel, while some critics considered it blasphemous and misogynistic.
Controversy followed the author around, but this is a thrilling and original tale set in post-revolutionary Mexico.
Irish tourist Kate Leslie meets Don Cipriano and Don Ramon Carrasco, founders of the religious movement The Men of Quetzalcoatl.
They believe themselves to be reincarnated Aztec gods and aim to wipe from the face of Mexico all worship of Jesus and the Virgin Mary.
As Cipriano seeks to marry Kate, the nation is hit by religious murder, fighting and the burning of Christian artifacts.
The violence builds and Kate is drawn inexorably to the mysterious beliefs of the followers of Quetzalcoatl.
Who will claim Kate's soul - and which side will triumph in the battle for the hearts and minds of Mexico?
'The Plumed Serpent' is perfect for fans of John Steinbeck, Karl Heller and Cormac McCarthy.
DH Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English writer and poet.
He was at the centre of a great deal of controversy during and after his life, with the explicit nature of some of his novels leading to censorship and protests.
Many critics admired his imaginative and deeply descriptive style, though.
Among his best-known novels are 'Sons and Lovers', 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', 'The Rainbow' and 'Women in Love'. -
Mornings in Mexico is a collection of travel essays by D. H. Lawrence about Mexico where he travelled several times and was fascinated by what he observed there of the exotic people and their way of life. It displays Lawrence's gifts as a travel writer, catching the "spirit of place'' in his own vivid manner.
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville + D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick (Unabridged)
D. H. Lawrence, Herman Melville
- E-artnow
- 18 Juillet 2013
- 9788074841538
This carefully crafted ebook: "Moby-Dick by Herman Melville + D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: first published in 1851, considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature, one of the great epics in all of literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now drives Ahab to take revenge...
D. H. Lawrence's critique of Moby-Dick: Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile which he called his "savage pilgrimage." Lawrence is now valued by many as a visionary thinker and significant representative of modernism in English literature. In his Studies in Classic American Literature, D. H. Lawrence reads Moby Dick as a peculiarly American work. The Pequod, containing "many races, many peoples, many nations, under the Stars and Stripes," is the ship of America's soul; it can be no accident that the ship is governed by a mad captain embarked upon a fanatic's hunt. Moby Dick is the "deepest blood-being of the white race," hunted by the "maniacal fanaticism of our white mental consciousness." -
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