查泰来夫人的情人(英文版)
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LADY CHATTERIJEY'S LOVER is a novel by D. H. Lawrencc, first published in 1928. Thefirst edition was printed in Florence, Italy; itcould not be published openly in the UnitcdKingdom until 1960. (A private edition wasissued by Inky Stephcnsen's Mandrake Pressin 1929).
The story is said to have originated fromevents in Lawrence's own unhappy domesticlife, and he took inspiration for the settings ofthe book from Eastwood in Nottinghamshirewherc he lived for a while. According to somecritics, the fling of Lady Ottoline Morrcll with"Tiger", a young stonemason who camc tocarvc plinths for her garden statucs, alsoinfluenced the story.
内容简介
一战结束后,出身贵族的克利福德爵士带着伤残的身体回到庄园;妻子康妮是个健康貌美的知识女性,然而在长久的无性的沉闷生活中几乎无法忍受。就在这时,身材健壮然向^却有着“土包子”那种粗俗、鄙陋的外表的看林人却吸引了她。一股被压抑了太久的原始的生命力开始萌动,她一次次到林中小屋与之幽会,在此期间体会到爱情的美好,终于跨越世俗的陋见与隔阂,从而踏上新的人生旅途。
作为劳伦斯最后·部长篇小说,《查泰莱夫人的情人》包含了作者一生对性与情爱这一永恒母题的探索和总结,正如评论者所指出的,将身体视为人性良知的基本内核,仅仅是现代社会中的人们。
作者简介
D.H. LAWRFNCF, (1885-1930),one of the greatest figures in20th-century English literature.Lawrcncc saw sex and intuition asways to undistorted perception ofreality and mcans to respond tothe inhumanity of the industrialculture. From Lawrence'sdoctrines of scxual freedom aroseobscenity trials, which had a dccpeffect on the relationshipbctwccn literature and society.
In 1912 he wrote: "What theblood feels, and believes, and says,is always true." Lawrcncc's Iifcafter World War I was markedwith continuous and restlesswandering.