DH Lawrence. Lady Chatterley's lover in 15 sentences.

It is a new anniversary of the birth in 1895 of DH Lawrence, the English author of Lady Chatterley's Lover, his most representative work. Branded scandalous and censored in its time and in many countries, this novel is today paradigm of erotic literature, in addition to a sociological study on the class struggle and the now fashionable female empowerment. I review it highlighting 15 of his phrases.

David Herbert Lawrence

He was the son of a miner and a teacher and studied at the University of Nottingham in 1908. Three years later he published his first novel, The white turkey. In 1912 his second work appeared, The Marauder. It was a first great scandal due to explicit descriptions of sex scenes. This characterized his later works and that continued to pose more problems with the censorship and morals of that time.

En 1913 published Children and lovers, a portrait of his youth and a reflection of his concern for what the incipient industrial society could mean. Then came The Rainbow, banned by the censorship of your country. This forced him to leave. Wrote Aaron's rod in Italy, after the First World War, and continued with the writing of a volume of literary criticism.

And from there he traveled to Australia where he wrote Kangaroo. Then he moved to Mexico, a place and a place that inspired him. The feathered snake. When he returned to Florence, he wrote Lady Chatterley's lover, which he published in 1928, his best known work and which influenced, among others, Henry Miller. He died in France from tuberculosis.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover estuvo forbidden 30 years in Great Britain and the United States, accused of pornographic and indecent. In Spain circulated in a way clandestine despite the censorship in the dictatorship. The exaltation of the importance of sexuality for both sexesI know that Lawrence clearly and openly it was neither funny nor convenient to the society of the time.

Today you still get mixed reactions among readers. There are those who continue to consider it a fundamental work of Anglo-Saxon literature and for its groundbreaking or innovative character regarding the issues it deals with. But there are also those who already consider it outdated for this time current and too overrated.

15 phrases

1. Our time is essentially tragic, and that is precisely why we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has already happened, we find ourselves among ruins, we begin to build new places to live, we begin to have new little hopes. It's not an easy job. We do not have before us a level road that leads to the future. But we circumvent or overcome obstacles. We have to live, no matter how many heavens have fallen on us. More or less that is the position taken by Constance Chatterley.
2. His entire body was becoming dull, heavy, opaque, an insignificant substance. It made her feel immensely depressed and hopeless. What hope could I have? She was old, old at twenty-seven, without spark or glow in her flesh. Old from so much abandonment and so much resignation; yes, resignation. Women of fashion kept their bodies shiny like delicate porcelain, for external attention. Inside the porcelain there was nothing; But she didn't even have that glow Mental life! Suddenly he hated this deception with impetuous fury!
3. There really is so much of you here with me that it is a shame that you are not all by my side.
4. She felt weak and infinitely abandoned. He wanted something to come from outside to his aid. Help that in no way was presented. Society was horrible because it was crazy. Civilized society is nonsense. Money and so-called love are his two great hobbies; with money very much in the lead. In his disconnected madness the individual identifies himself in these two ways: money and love.
5. The modern world, by unleashing emotion, has only managed to popularize it. What we need is the classical domain.
6. As for sexuality, it was only a term used in cocktails to designate an excitement that amused one for a while and then left one more sinking than before ... It seemed that the fabric from which one was made was a cheap fabric and that it was wearing down until it was reduced to nothing.
7. What was new in her was not passion, but hungry adoration ... She ran like a bacchante, a bacchante who ran through the forest in search of Iacco, in search of the turgid phallus of which there was no independent will of her own, since she was only a servant of the woman. The man, individually considered, was but a servant of the temple.
8. It almost seems that soon men will be of no use on the surface of the earth, there will be nothing but machines.
9. Raped! One could have been raped without ever being touched. Raped by dead words that became obscene, and by dead ideas that became obsessions.
10. It is man who poisons the Universe. It litters its own nest. Only human beings desecrate.
11. I don't think it hurts a woman more to sleep with her than to dance with her… or even to tell her about the weather. It is nothing more than an exchange of sensations instead of ideas, so why not?
12. Sexuality and a cocktail. They last the same time, produce the same effect, and come to mean the same thing.
13. She liked the memory of the feel of the man's flesh touching hers, even the stickiness of his skin on hers. in a sense it was a sacred sensation.
14. But that's the way men are. Ungrateful and always dissatisfied. When they reject them, they hate because they reject them, and when they give in, they hate for some other reason as well. Or for no reason.
15. She was like a forest, like the dark web of oak branches, with an inaudible whisper of thousands of buds blooming. And meanwhile the birds slept in the vast tangle of the labyrinth of his body.