Godina izdanja: Ostalo
ISBN: Ostalo
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

D. H. Lawrence - Kangaroo


Penguin books, 1954. godine na 394. strane.


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Kangaroo is a 1923 novel by D. H. Lawrence. It is set in Australia.

Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife Harriet in the early 1920s. This appears to be semi-autobiographical, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, in 1922. The novel includes a chapter (`Nightmare`) describing the Somers` experiences in wartime St Ives, Cornwall, vivid descriptions of the Australian landscape, and Richard Somers` sceptical reflections on fringe politics in Sydney. Kangaroo`s movement, and the `great general emotion` of Kangaroo himself, do not appeal to Somers, and in this the novel begins to reflect Lawrence`s own experiences during World War I. Somers also rejects the socialism of Struthers, which emphasises `generalised love`.

`Kangaroo` is the fictional nickname of one of Lawrence`s characters, Benjamin Cooley, a prominent ex-soldier and lawyer, who is also the leader of a secretive, fascist paramilitary organisation, the `Diggers Club`. Cooley fascinates Somers, but he maintains his distance from the movement itself. It has been suggested by Darroch and others that Cooley was based on Major General Charles Rosenthal, a notable World War I leader and right-wing activist. It has also been alleged that Rosenthal was involved with the Old Guard, a secret anti-communist militia.