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The Rainbow de D. H. Lawrence

The Rainbow

Autor D. H. Lawrence
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 feb 2002

Suntem de părere că puține romane reușesc să captureze atât de visceral miza emancipării individuale precum o face The Rainbow. În centrul acestei saga de familie se află Ursula Brangwen, a cărei luptă pentru a-și afirma identitatea la granița dintre tradiția rurală și modernitatea urbană devine o căutare a „triumfului infinitului”. Lawrence nu scrie doar o cronică socială, ci o explorare psihologică profundă a modului în care legăturile de sânge și pasiunile erotice modelează spiritul uman pe parcursul a trei generații.

Merită menționat că autorul sfidează convențiile lingvistice ale epocii sale, integrând o imagistică biblică densă într-o narațiune despre dorință și conflict generațional. Ritmul lecturii este unul contemplativ, dar încărcat de o tensiune latentă, reflectând tranziția Angliei de la o societate agrară la una industrială. Această ediție de la WORDSWORTH EDITIONS LTD păstrează forța brută a textului care, în 1915, a fost considerat prea subversiv pentru rafturile librăriilor.

The Rainbow amintește de Rainbow Rainbow de Mary J. Greene prin structura sa genealogică și focusul pe familia de fermieri din Midlands, dar se diferențiază prin intensitatea poetică a prozei și prin radicalismul cu care Lawrence analizează fuziunea dintre fizic și spiritual. Față de Sons and Lovers, unde explorarea relațiilor mamă-fiu este aproape sufocantă, acest roman lărgește perspectiva, pregătind terenul pentru temele din Women in Love. Este o operă fundamentală pentru a înțelege viziunea lui D. H. Lawrence asupra vitalității umane strivite de mecanismele civilizației moderne.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780375759659
ISBN-10: 0375759654
Pagini: 530
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:Modern Library.
Editura: Random House

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care apreciază literatura clasică de introspecție și marile saga de familie. The Rainbow oferă o perspectivă fascinantă asupra evoluției rolului femeii în societate și a luptei pentru autonomie într-o lume în schimbare. Este un câștig cert pentru cei care doresc să descopere un stil narativ care îmbină realismul social cu un misticism senzorial unic, specific unuia dintre cei mai controversați autori britanici.

Despre autor

D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) a fost un scriitor și poet englez a cărui operă reprezintă o critică extinsă la adresa efectelor dezumanizante ale industrializării. Printre cele mai cunoscute romane ale sale se numără Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow și Lady Chatterley's Lover. Din cauza explorării oneste a sexualității și a instinctelor umane, Lawrence a fost adesea ținta cenzurii și a persecuțiilor oficiale, trăind o mare parte din viață în exil. Deși la moartea sa era văzut de mulți ca un autor controversat, critici precum E. M. Forster l-au reevaluat drept cel mai mare romancier imaginativ al generației sale.

Descriere scurtă

With its frank portrayal of human passion and sexual desire, D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow was banned as 'obscene' in Britain shortly after first publication. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by James Wood.
Set in the rural Midlands, The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than 60 years, setting them against the emergence of modern England. When Tom Brangwen marries a Polish widow, Lydia Lensky, and adopts her daughter Anna as his own, he is unprepared for the conflict and passion that erupts between them. All are seeking individual fulfilment, but it is Ursula, Anne's spirited daughter, who in her search for self-knowedge, becomes the focus of Lawrence's examination of relationships and the conflicts they bring, and the inextricable mingling of the physical and the spiritual. Suffused with Biblical imagery, The Rainbow addresses searching human issues in a setting of precise and vivid detail.
In his introduction James Wood discusses Lawrence's writing style and the tensions and themes of The Rainbow. This Penguin edition reproduces the Cambridge text, which provides a text as close as possible to Lawrence's original. It also includes suggested further reading, a fragment of 'The Sisters II' from his first draft, and chronologies of Lawrence's life and of The Rainbow's Brangwen family.
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist, storywriter, critic, poet and painter, one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. Lawrence published Sons and Lovers in 1913, but The Rainbow, completed in 1915, was declared obscene and banned two months after first publication; and for three years he could not find a publisher for Women in Love, which he completed in 1917. His last novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, was published in 1928, but banned in England and America.
If you enjoyed The Rainbow, you might like Lawrence's Women in Love, also available in Penguin Classics.
'A brave and important book, passionate and wildly ambitious'
Independent on Sunday

Textul de pe ultima copertă

Set in the rural midlands of England, D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rainbow' explores the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family, conveying how their rural existence is gradually but profoundly changed by the influx of industry and urbanism. But it is young Ursula Brangwen, discovering herself through her sexual awakening, who becomes the focus of Lawrence's classic work, which was banned by court order when it was first published in London in 1915.

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.

Recenzii

"Lawrence is the most Dostoevskian of English novelists, in whose best work conflicting ideological positions are brought into play and set up against each other in dialogue that is never simply or finally resolved" -- David Lodge "No writer since Lawrence has been so openly governed by what seems like powerful personal likes and dislikes, grievances, and by what appear to many as untenable prejudices" -- Amit Chauduri "What astonished me reading it this time round is the iconoclastic modernity of the novel... the sense of daring experiment. I had entirely forgotten what drastic steps Lawrence was taking with character, for instance. Or with narrative (the novel proceeds cyclically). When this is combined with sexual overtness and a revolutionary call for the individual to achieve "Me-ness" in opposition to the nation, industry and war, we have a book that, appearing as it did in 1915, seemed genuinely disturbing" -- Adam Thorpe Guardian

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To be oneself was a supreme, gleaming triumph of infinity This is the insight that flashes upon Ursula as she struggles to assert her individuality and to stand separate from her family and her surroundings on the brink of womanhood and the modern world. In The Rainbow (1915) Lawrence challenged the customary limitations of language and convention to carry into the structure of his prose the fascination with boundaries and space that characterize the entire novel. Condemned and suppressed on its first publication for its open treatment of sexuality and its `unpatriotic' spirit, the novel chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than 60 years, setting them against the emergence of modern England. The central figure of ursula becomes the focus of Lawrence's examination of relationships and the conflicts they bring, and the inextricable mingling of the physical and the spiritual. Suffused with biblical imagery, The Rainbow addresses searching human issues in a setting of precise and vivid detail. In her introduction to this edition Kate Flint illuminates Lawrence's aims and achievements against the background of the burgeoning century. 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.

Cuprins

General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue titles; Introduction; The Rainbow; Appendix 1. Fragment of 'The Sisters'; Appendix 2. Fragment of 'The Sisters II'; Appendix 3. Report and letter on 'The Wedding Ring'; Appendix 4. Chronology of The Rainbow; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; A note on pounds, shillings and pence.