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Sons and Lovers

Autor D. H. Lawrence
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2008

Stilul prozei din Sons and Lovers are ceva din intensitatea brută și energia nervoasă regăsită în Paul Morel, fără să fie o imitație — Lawrence rafinează aici impulsul autobiografic într-o structură narativă de o profunzime psihologică remarcabilă. Reținem în acest text o explorare cvasi-viscerală a legăturilor de sânge care devin, paradoxal, atât motorul vitalității, cât și piedica supremă în calea maturizării. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autorul reușește să transpună conflictul dintre instinct și intelect, o temă centrală pe care o vom regăsi, mai târziu, mult mai explicită în Lady Chatterley's Lover sau în explorările sociale din The Fox.

În centrul narațiunii se află Gertrude Morel, o femeie rafinată captivă într-un mariaj marcat de sărăcie și violență alături de un miner dur. Pe măsură ce dragostea pentru soț se stinge, afecțiunea ei se revarsă sufocant asupra fiilor săi. Urmărim astfel destinul lui Paul, prins într-o luptă mută între devotamentul față de mamă și nevoia de a iubi alte femei, precum Miriam sau Clara. Ritmul lecturii este unul dens, încărcat de o tensiune emoțională care nu lasă loc de superficialitate. Lawrence nu se mulțumește să descrie o epocă industrială, ci sondează sănătatea emoțională și instinctele umane într-o manieră care a sfidat convențiile epocii sale. Față de alte scrieri din Four Notable Works, acest roman rămâne probabil cea mai intimă și echilibrată realizare a sa, oferind o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care clasa socială și educația modelează capacitatea individului de a simți.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781420932287
ISBN-10: 1420932284
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Digireads.com
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Sons and Lovers cititorilor care caută o proză de o onestitate psihologică tăioasă. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege tranziția către modernismul literar, oferind un studiu fascinant despre complexul lui Oedip și despre lupta dintre aspirațiile spirituale și nevoile fizice. Câștigați acces la una dintre cele mai influente opere ale literaturii engleze, o poveste despre devotament, sacrificiu și greutatea moștenirii materne.


Despre autor

D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) a fost un scriitor și poet englez a cărui operă reprezintă o reflecție extinsă asupra efectelor dezumanizante ale modernității și industrializării. Fiu de miner, Lawrence și-a folosit originile modeste ca sursă de inspirație pentru romane fundamentale precum The Rainbow și Women in Love. Deși a fost persecutat oficial și cenzurat pentru abordarea sa directă asupra sexualității și instinctului, fiind adesea etichetat greșit ca pornograf, posteritatea l-a recunoscut drept unul dintre cei mai mari romancieri imaginativi. Viața sa a fost un „pelerinaj sălbatic” în exil, căutând mereu o relație armonioasă între om și natură.


Descriere scurtă

First published in 1913, this provocative semi-autobiographical novel reflects the struggles of Paul Morel, an artist who cannot reciprocate love for other women while under the influence of his stifling mother. Unconsciously taught to despise his father and eschew other women, Paul comes even further under his mother's psychological grasp after the death of his older brother. When he eventually does fall in love, the results of confused affection and desire are painful for all concerned. While "Sons and Lovers" scandalized its original English readers for its oedipal implications and social criticism, it remains a powerful story of terrifying inner and outer conflict and intense sensuality.

Notă biografică

David Herbert Richards "D. H." Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. 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." At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as, "The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Lawrence is perhaps best known for his novels Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover. Within these Lawrence explores the possibilities for life within an industrial setting. In particular Lawrence is concerned with the nature of relationships that can be had within such a setting. Though often classed as a realist, Lawrence in fact uses his characters to give form to his personal philosophy. His depiction of sexual activity, though seen as shocking when he first published in the early 20th century, has its roots in this highly personal way of thinking and being. It is worth noting that Lawrence was very interested in the sense of touch and that his focus on physical intimacy has its roots in a desire to restore an emphasis on the body, and re-balance it with what he perceived to be Western civilisation's over-emphasis on the mind.

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Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly-knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden for long.When the marriage between Walter Morel and his sensitive, high-minded wife begins to break down, the bitterness of their frustration seeps into their children's lives. Their second son, Paul, craves the warmth of family and community, but knows that he must sacrifice everything in the struggle for independence if he is not to repeat his parents' failure.Lawrence's powerful description of Paul's single-minded efforts to define himself sexually and emotionally through relationships with two women - the innocent, old-fashioned Miriam Leivers and the experienced, provocatively modern Clara Dawes - makes this a novel as much for the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was for the beginning of the twentieth. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Recenzii

"He's an intoxicator, a very great writer, punished by the feminists and their ludicrous opinions. The short stories are among the best in the language. I re-read Sons and Lovers and The Rainbow recently and thought them wonderful... Has there ever been anyone like him for bringing places and people so vividly to life?" -- Doris Lessing "Lawrence's masterly portraiture of the human impulse in his fiction had strength and depth...He tore at the rock of life with hand and implement... in Sons and Lovers he fashioned the hard substance of his place and people in memorable ways." Guardian, March 1930 "An affecting portrait of a mining family torn apart by class divisions and individual desire at the turn of the century" Guardian "His fierce love for his mother warring with the need to follow his own desires - analysed with a vigorous relentlessness and pungent imagery - makes this a work whose power stands the test of time" Sunday Times "When I was 13 or 14 this was the book I couldn't put down. It's very good teenager territory" -- Jonathan Pryce Daily Express

Cuprins

General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Sons and Lovers; Appendixes; Explanatory notes; Glossary; Textual apparatus; A note on pounds, shillings and pence.