Solidos
DATE :CAMILA VELEZ
WRITTEN BY: DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE
INTRODUCTION
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irst published in 1928. The first edition was printed privatelyin Florence, Italy with assistance from Pino Orioli; it could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960. (A private edition was issued by Inky Stephensen's Mandrake Press in 1929.)[1] The book soonbecame notorious for its story of the physical relationship between a working-class man and an aristocratic woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of (at the time) unprintable words.
Thestory is said to have originated from events in Lawrence's own unhappy domestic life, and he took inspiration for the settings of the book from Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, where he grew up. Accordingto some critics, the fling of Lady Ottoline Morrell with "Tiger", a young stonemason who came to carve plinths for her garden statues, also influenced the story.[2] Lawrence at one time consideredcalling the novel Tenderness and made significant alterations to the text and story in the process of its composition. It has been published in three different versions.
POSITIVE POINTS: Theirliterature presents a wide reflection on the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization, 2 and addressed issues relating to emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinctNEGATIVE POINTS: Although at the time of his death its image before the public was that of a pornographer whohad wasted his considerable talents, E. M. Forster, in an obituary, defendedhis reputationby describing it as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation" .5 Later, F. R.Leavis, a critic of Cambridge notorious influence, highlighted both his artistic integrity andhis moralseriousness, which put much of his fiction in the "great tradition" canonical novel in England. Over time, Lawrence's image has taken hold in a visionary thinker and a great representative of modernism...
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