Dh Lawrence in Italy
The Armchair Traveller at the BookHaus (Verlag)
978-1-909961-72-2 (ISBN)
November 1925: In search of health and sun, the writer D. H. Lawrence arrives on the Italian Riviera with his wife, Frieda, and is exhilarated by the view of the sparkling Mediterranean from his rented villa, set amid olives and vines. But over the next six months, Frieda will be fatally attracted to their landlord, a dashing Italian army officer. This incident of infidelity influenced Lawrence to write two short stories, "Sun" and "The Virgin and the Gypsy," in which women are drawn to earthy, muscular men, both of which prefigured his scandalous novel Lady Chatterley's Lover. In DH Lawrence in Italy, Owen reconstructs the drama leading up to the creation of one of the most controversial novels of all time by drawing on the unpublished letters and diaries of Rina Secker, the Anglo-Italian wife of Lawrence's publisher. In addition to telling the story of the origins of Lady Chatterley, DH Lawrence in Italy explores Lawrence's passion for all things Italian, tracking his path to the Riviera from Lake Garda to Lerici, Abruzzo, Capri, Sicily, and Sardinia.
Richard Owen was The Times correspondent for 15 years. He was previously the paper's correspondent in Moscow, Brussels and Jerusalem, and also served as Foreign Editor. Owen has written several works of non-fiction, including Crisis in the Kremlin: Soviet Succession and the Rise of Gorbachov, Letter from Moscow and Lady Chatterley's Villa: DH Lawrence on the Italian Riviera.
Acknowledgements // ix
Introduction // 1
1. Nottingham to Lake Garda // 8
2. Gargnano to Lerici // 17
3. Capri to Sicily // 30
4. Sardinia to Spotorno // 41
5. The Lure of the Italian Riviera // 51
6. Rina and Martin // 61
7. Down There By The Sea // 73
8. The Villa Bernarda // 82
9. Naked in the Sun // 92
10. The Virgin and the Gipsy // 103
11. 'Such Combustible People!' // 113
12. The Villa Mirenda // 124
13. Florence and Lady Chatterly // 133
14. Death in Vence // 143
15. Lawrence the Italian // 155
Postscript // 165
Dramatis Personae // 168
A Note on Sources // 173
Endnotes // 176
Bibliography // 222
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.10.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Armchair Traveller |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 127 x 203 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-909961-72-8 / 1909961728 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-909961-72-2 / 9781909961722 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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