Continuing from his classic, The Rainbow. Sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen embark on relationships which explore and challenge the emotional and physical needs of all those involved. Controversial and thought-provoking, Women in Love follows on from The Rainbow. The novel's explicit and open attitudes to sexuality and relationships led to its publication in the UK being delayed by eleven years. It remains as controversial and divisive as ever, but is now broadly accepted as a classic.
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Continuing from his classic, The Rainbow. Sisters Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen embark on relationships which explore and challenge the emotional and physical needs of all those involved. Controversial and thought-provoking, Women in Love follows on from The Rainbow. The novel's explicit and open attitudes to sexuality and relationships led to its publication in the UK being delayed by eleven years. It remains as controversial and divisive as ever, but is now broadly accepted as a classic.
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Asked to name the ten greatest novels of the 20th Century very few well read people would leave this explosive, sensitive novel off the list. Lawrence had so many artistic talents - poet, essayist, travel writer, painter. But above all his best novels display all of these talents; and none more so than "Women in Love."
Many may disagree with his convictions that drive his characters in this powerfully unfolding tale, but somehow faulting what Lawrence believes, or for that matter, what his creations do to themselves and others, seems especially beside the point, as the poetic passion simply drowns any cool headed intellectual attempt to reduce the raw recreation of experience with such precision.
This is not suggest that Lawrence lacked the deep intelligence to delve into what it means to be human and expose the frailty of his passionate conduct. He senses with a sure instinct that it is this very passion that makes us all so vulnerable. Yet, he nevertheless shows us in scene after unfolding scene that being false to our true selves leads to even greater misery: the reductive misery of unfulfillment..
