Many novels do not gain by relating them to their times. Others, usually the polemical kind, may only be understood in context, and Lady Chatterley's Lover is one. To read it unenlightened, particularly the feverish third version, can only leave the reader wondering what on earth is all this urgent preaching about, particularly now, when it is hard even to remember what a mealy-mouthed society Lawrence was writing in. It was prudish, repressed and priggish, and as always in such a time the dirty snigger was never far away.
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Review of Lady Chatterly's Lover
Here is an interesting review of Lady Chatterly's Lover, written by Doris Lessing for the Guardian in 2006. A snippet from her review:
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