Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
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Author: D. H. LawrenceEdition: Library Binding
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1981-12
ISBN: 0899663753
Publisher: Buccaneer Books
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Book Review: Underlying Theme Is Incorrect
Summary: 3 Stars
Lady Chatterley's Lover is a beautiful love story written by a great artist. It is by no means only a "sex" story, but portrays two individuals quite sensitively. If one sticks to the surface story, one will probably be quite taken with the beauty of it. But there is an underlying theme here which runs throughout all of Lawrence's work: the idea that the world is a dirty, unpleasant place and that people are always small, disagreeable and nasty and that the solutions to all of life's most pressing problems is orgasm. This is rather silly, to say the least. Certain portions of life can be ugly, but the extent to which Lawrence does so in this novel is really stretching it a bit. It seems like a set-up to me: after showing only the negative portion of life and convincing the reader that this is reality as "it really is", he springs his stock solution: sex. This seems as absurd to me as trying to grab a handful of air; imagination is at the root of the sexual appetite in humans and this he leaves rather untouched. Intellectualism is also disavowed in prference to a sort of bodily exaltation which leaves one at the mercy of one's physical being without recourse to higher faculties (inlcuding those of control and discipline). It is also interesting to note that in his philosophical position, Lawrence is much closer to Sartre than Camus, who although still a pessimist, finds a great deal of exuberance in the physical world of nature that Lawrence and Sartre tend to reject as ugly and forbidding. The philosophical underpinnings sort of ruin the novel for me, although it may not be noticeable until the second or third read.
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