The Virgin and the Gypsy - Couverture souple

Lawrence, D. H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0553209167 ISBN 13 : 9780553209167

Editeur : Bantam Books, 1980

Synopsis

Book by Lawrence D H

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was an important and controversial English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism and personal letters. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, sexuality, and instinctive behaviour. Lawrence's unsettling opinions earned him many enemies and he endured hardships, 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 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." Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel. He is now generally valued as a visionary thinker and a significant representative of modernism in English literature, although some feminists object to the attitudes toward women and sexuality found in his works.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Virgin and the Gipsy By D.H. Lawrence

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Books
• Date d'édition: 1980
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0553209167
• ISBN 13: 9780553209167
• Reliure: Poche
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible