'Connie was aware, however, of a growing restlessness…It thrilled inside her body, in her womb, somewhere, till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness. It made her heart beat violently for no reason…'
Lady Constance Chatterley is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who is impotent. Oppressed by her dreary life, she is drawn to Mellors the gamekeeper. Breaking out against the constraints of society she yields to her instinctive desire for him and discovers the transforming power of physical love which leads them both towards fulfilment.
Banned for many years for its frank depiction of sex, Lady Chatterley's Lover was first published by Penguin in 1960 and was at the centre of a sensational obscenity trial at the Old Bailey. D. H. Lawrence himself called it 'the most improper novel in the world'.
作者簡介
D.H.勞倫斯(D. H. Laurence, 1885-1930)
出生於英國諾丁漢郡,父親是煤礦工人,母親出身中產階級家庭。正因如此,他的父母關係非常惡劣,並對他後來的創作產生深遠的影響。
1902年,勞倫斯患上肺炎,結束短暫的工廠職員生涯,轉而接受教師職業培訓,於1908年取得諾丁漢大學教師資格。在克羅伊登執教期間,開始在《英國評論》上發表詩作,於此雜誌發表的短篇小說《菊花香》在倫敦引起回響,開啟作家生涯。
1910年,勞倫斯出版第一部長篇小說《白孔雀》,沒多久他的母親病逝。勞倫斯和母親關係非常親密,他最著名的作品之一《兒子與情人》(1913)曾引發西方評論界關於「戀母情結」的巨大爭議。
母親去世後,勞倫斯肺炎復發,並快速惡化成肺結核。在身體稍微痊癒之時,他決定徹底放棄教職,專事筆耕。1912年,和諾丁漢大學一名現代語言學教授的妻子弗麗達.馮.里希托芬(Frieda von Richthofen)私奔至德國。
第一次世界大戰爆發後,兩人返回英國,於1914年結婚。由於當時英、德為交戰國,勞倫斯夫婦始終活在官方的監視之下,過著極其貧困的生活。1915年,《虹》一出版就因淫穢而被禁。
戰後,他偕同妻子離開英國四處旅行,足跡遍布法國、義大利、斯里蘭卡、澳大利亞、美國和墨西哥。後因肺炎復發不得不回到歐洲,並開始寫作《查泰萊夫人的情人》,這部風靡全球的小說最初在佛羅倫斯以私人名義出版。
1930年,勞倫斯死於法國芒斯。他的妻子則返回兩人曾經旅居的新墨西哥,並將勞倫斯的骨灰葬於該地。
David Herbert Lawrence was born in Nottinghamshire in 1885. After briefly working in both manufacturing and teaching, he published his first novel, The White Peacock¸ in 1911. He then published Sons and Lovers, but his next novel, The Rainbow, was suppressed for its alleged obscenity, and for three years he could not find a publisher for Women in Love. After the First World War he decided to escape the persecution he had suffered in England and spent many years travelling. His last novel, Lady Chatterley's Novel, was published in 1928 but banned in Britain and America until 1960, when landmark trials cleared the way for publication of unexpurgated editions for the first time. D. H. Lawrence died in 1930.
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