Sons and Lovers
Autor D. H. Lawrenceen Limba Engleză Paperback
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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ISBN-10: 1493724894
Pagini: 340
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: CREATESPACE
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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.
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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.
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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.
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before the age of four, but respiratory illness and a weak constitution forced him to remain home intermittently. Two months before his sixteenth birthday, he went to work as a clerk in a badly ventilated factory
that made medical supplies, and eventually contracted pneumonia. After a long convalescence, he got a job as a student teacher, but privately he resolved to become a poet. He began writing seriously in 1906
and entered University College, Nottingham, to earn his teacher's certificate. Two years later he started teaching elementary school full-time. He published his first poems in the English Review in 1909. When
he contracted pneumonia a second time, he gave up teaching.
His first two novels, The White Peacock and The Trespasser, were published in 1911 and 1912. About three weeks after the publication of The Trespasser, he left England with Frieda Weekley, née von
Richthofen, the German wife of Ernest Weekley, a British linguist who had been his French and German instructor at University College. He wrote the final version of his autobiographical novel Sons and
Lovers (1913) - begun when his mother was dying of cancer in 1910 - during his year-long courtship of Frieda in Germany and Italy. Sons and Lovers was immediately recognized as the first great modern
restatement of the Oedipal drama, but, like most of Lawrence's novels during his lifetime, sold poorly. Lawrence and Frieda married in London in July 1914, immediately after Frieda's divorce became final;
they lived peripatetically and in relative poverty.
They spent World War I in England, a country they both essentially disliked, and endured a series of clumsy surveillance and harassment campaigns by local police because of her nationality (several of her
relatives were diplomats, statesmen, and politicians, and she was a cousin of Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron") and his apparent lack of patriotism (among other charges, The Prussian Officer, a
collection of stories, published in November 1914, several months after Great Britain entered the war, was considered politically and morally offensive by conservative booksellers). Exempt from active service
because of his health, Lawrence wrote The Rainbow and Women in Love. The former was seized and burned by the police for indecency in November 1915, two months after publication; Lawrence was
unable to find a publisher for the latter until six years later. Composition of these two novels coincided with bouts of erratic behavior in Lawrence that bordered on mental instability, sexual confusion and
experimentation that threatened to undermine his marriage, and endless health reversals, including a diagnosis of tuberculosis. Twilight in Italy, a collection of acerbic travel essays believed by some to show a
sympathy for fascism that became more explicit in, for example, his novel The Plumed Serpent (1926), was published in 1916. He recorded the vicissitudes of his marriage in an autobiographical poem cycle,
Look! We Have Come Through (1917).
The Lawrences departed for Europe in late 1919 and spent most of the next two years in Italy and Germany. The Lost Girl, a novel, was published in 1920 and received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize
the following year, which also saw the publication of Movements in European History, a text for schoolchildren; Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, an anti-Freudian tract; Tortoises, a collection of
poems; Sea and Sardinia, a travel book; and, belatedly, Women in Love. Early in 1922 he and Frieda went around the world by boat. They visited Ceylon, lived in Australia for a month and a half, and in the
summer sailed to America, where they settled in New Mexico. Aaron's Rod, a novel; Fantasia of the Unconscious, a sequel to Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious; and England, My England, a collection
of stories, were published that year. In the spring of 1923, after moving to Mexico, he and Frieda separated temporarily. He toured the western United States and briefly returned to Mexico; she moved to
London. Kangaroo, his novel of Australia, and Birds, Beasts, and Flowers, a collection of poems, were published in the fall. He reunited with Frieda in the winter. They went to New Mexico again in the
spring of 1924; he suffered bouts of influenza, malaria, and typhoid fever the next year. The Lawrences eventually resettled in Italy in 1926.
He began writing his last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, in 1926. It was published two years later and banned in England and the United States as pornographic. Lawrence was an avid amateur painter, and a
selection of his paintings - grossly rendered, full-figured representational nudes - was exhibited in London in 1929. The show was raided on July 5 by the police, who removed thirteen of the canvases.
Lawrence coincidentally suffered a violent tubercular hemorrhage in Italy the same day. He went to Bavaria to undergo a cure - it was unsuccessful - and in 1930 entered a sanatorium in Vence, France, where
treatment similarly failed. He died in a villa in Vence on the night of March 2, a half year short of his forty-fifth birthday, and was buried in a local cemetery. His body was eventually disinterred and cremated,
and his ashes transported to Frieda Lawrence's ranch outside Taos, New Mexico. In addition to numerous plays, collections of poetry, and other, lesser-known works published during his lifetime, his novels
The Virgin and the Gypsy and Mr. Noon were published posthumously.