ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1962
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

D. H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers
Penguin, 1962
511 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro, potpis na prvoj strani.

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This semi-autobiographical novel explores the emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and the suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. It is a pre-Freudian exploration of love and possessiveness.

Although this is one of the earliest of D. H. Lawrence`s novels, written in his middle twenties, it is undoubtedly one of his best. To a very large extent it is autobiographical, for the background of the story is the Nottingham coalfield where Lawrence was brought up, and the Morel family is the counterpart of his own. The dominant personality of the novel Is Mrs Morel, a woman of character and refinement married to a virile but coarse-grained miner. She is determined that her children shall not be moulded by the environment of a colliery-village of those days, or by the example of her hard-drinking husband. Her favourite child, the third.one, is her son Paul, whose sensitive mind and artistic gifts become to her both a compensation and an incentive. Between Paul and his mother, there develops one of those delicate relationships in which love has to contend with possessiveness, and this `balance of power` provides one of the mainsprings of the book. As Paul grows up, other women inevitably come into his life, and his loves for Miriam and Clara, so very dissimilar, exert further complicated influences upon the development of his manhood. In shaping this pattern of emotional conflicts Lawrence reveals those qualities of candid and penetrating analysis which have made him the most debated novelist of his time.