Résumé
Notes and Introduction by David Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury.With its four-letter words and its explicit descriptions of sexual intercourse, Lady Chatterley's Lover is the novel with which D.H. Lawrence is most often associated. First published privately in Florence in 1928, it only became a world-wide best-seller after Penguin Books had successfully resisted an attempt by the British Director of Public Prosecutions to prevent them offering an unexpurgated edition. The famous 'Lady Chatterley trial' heralded the sexual revolution of the coming decades and signalled the defeat of Establishment prudery.Yet Lawrence himself was hardly a liberationist and the conservativism of many aspects of his novel would later lay it open to attacks from the political avant-garde and from feminists. The story of how the wife of Sir Clifford Chatterley responds when her husband returns from the war paralysed from the waist down, and of the tender love which then develops between her and her husband's gamekeeper, is a complex one open to a variety of conflicting interpretations.This edition of the novel offers an occasion for a new generation of readers to discover what all the fuss was about; to appraise Lawrence's bitter indictment of modern industrial society, and to ask themselves what lessons there might be for the 21st century in his intense exploration of the complicated relations between love and sex.
À propos de l'auteur
Lawrence, D.H.
The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel,The White Peacock, was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence publishedSons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor's wife. His masterpiecesThe Rainbow andWomen in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence's lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence's final novel,Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.
Fiche technique
- Titre : Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Auteur : Lawrence, D.H.
- Langue : Anglais
- Format : Broché
- Nombre de pages : 304
- Genre : N/C
- Date de publication : 05-08-2005
- Édition : Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Poids : 0.18458061199999998 kg
- Dimensions : 12.446000000000002 x 1.27 x 19.558 cm
- ISBN-10 : 1840224886
- ISBN-13 : 9781840224887
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