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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Unfinished novel. Part one deals with disruptions to a love affair with a young woman in a Nottinghamshire colliery town setting. There is conflict with English ideas of decency. Part Two; hero meets Johanna, a married woman in Germany and falls in love with her. She rejects her married life and elopes via the Tyrol with Gilbert to Italy. As usual, brilliant descriptions of the travel involved and wonderful humorous asides to the reader. Strange book, well worth reading if you like D H Lawrence. It's a book of two parts that have little to do with each other, except that the protagonist is ostensibly the same person - a thinly disguised version of Lawrence himself. The first part, which personally I thought worked much better, is a short and witty story of life in a provincial Midlands town and what young people get up to there. The second part, also heavily autobiographical, is an unfinished, lightly fictionalised account of the beginning of Lawrence's relationship with Frieda. It has passages of brilliant writing but no structure to speak of.
Lawrence's descriptive powers are at their finest in Part II. How well he captures the atmosphere of a German garrison town, sees into the gemiltlich German soul which has ruined itself with dreams of order, then takes off into the mountains and forests and flinty kind-cold streams, recording everything - which was his unique gift - as though recovering from an illness and seeing the natural world as for the first time. Johanna, whom we get to know physically as well s any heroine in literature, is adorable but maddening. The intimacy between the bizarrely ill-assorted two is presented candidly but without lubricity. When Lawrence sails off into his harangues to the reader about sex mysticism he knows in time when to tack to our patience. He is never without humour or irony... It would have been pleasant to have picked up this book as a plain text, in the 'brave red' of the old collected edition, but we have to have it as an item in the emerging scholarly Cambridge edition of the works, with notes telling us whatfleur du mal means, Goethe's dates, how many pence in the shilling of the ancient discredited coinage, maps, historical identifications of the fictional characters, every fifth line numbered to refer us to the notes. In other words, we are meeting a fine piece of Laurentiana with an earnest chaperone. 'One of these days, dear reader, you may meet this book with an apparatus criticus clanking behind it.' Lawrence's cheek didn't take him so far. But it took him as far as chiding the critics in the Observer and Times who had taken him to task for his lowness in the Part I which he had already seen reviewed.He didn't give a damn, really. Books, he says in Part II, are leaves on the tree of life, to be blown away and forgotten. Appartiene alle Collane Editorialidetebe (22633) È contenuto in
Mr Noon is a sardonic tale about the amorous adventures of Gilbert Noon, a young schoolmaster in Lawrence's home county of Nottinghamshire who gets entangled with a girl, loses his job, and decides to leave the country to escape the narrow provincial middle-class morality. It was first known as a long story posthumously published in A Modern Lover (1934) and collected in the volume called Phoenix II (1968). Lawrence in fact wrote a long continuation of the novel, but the manuscript disappeared for many years. The Cambridge edition brought the two parts together for the first time. It is like a sequel to Sons and Lovers, but much more straightforwardly autobiographical. The publication of the complete work added a new work of major importance to the canon of a great writer, and was widely hailed as a major literary event. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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In: Revue Esprit No. 109 (12) (Décembre 1985), p. 123… ; (en ligne),
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