Lady Chatterley's Lover

Good read

以前持っていたが、どこへやったやら。原本なら字句に相違はないはず。で、再購入した。 日本では、翻訳した箇所が部分的に消されていたので、原文を一生懸命読解したものだ。 辞書にない単語は前後の文脈から判断して、情景を想像した。楽しい時期であった。

Wordsworth Classics nos ofrece una edición con una estupenda relación calidad-precio de una novela que es necesaria en la estantería de cualquier bibliófilo. Me quedo con una estrella por el internileado (para mi gusto es demasiado pequeño, lo que cansa un poco).

Lady Chatterley's Lover novel was not allowed to be published until 1960, nearly 30 years after Lawrence' death. We would read both the book and watch the movie today and wonder - what's the problem? Yes, there is sex in this book and movie. As, with most of us, there is in real life. But this is much more than the titillation of sex for entertainment. It is a story that has its background in the harsh life for almost all but the noble in post WWI England. And it is a story where love tries to cross that insurmountable boundary in English society. Lady Chatterley is a noble woman, who winds up with a crippled, shattered noble man as her husband following WWI. She respects him, but never had true, romantic love for him. He has a vast estate, upon which lives a virile gamekeeper under his hire. This man is a commoner, but has intelligence, was an officer in the army, and has a kindness towards nature that touches Lady Chatterley, married to a man whose emotions for beauty, tenderness, and the weaker things of nature are as dead as his legs. The lady and the gamekeeper find a bond, a love, and that is the story here. Watch it. It is one of the most beautiful love movies you will ever see.

Per uno studente liceale linguistico che nei momenti di pausa vuole confrontarsi con la letteratura non italiana, la lettura di questo libro si conferma un ottimo esercizio anche per mantenere in allenamento la propria conoscenza interculturale. Spedizione non velocissima (essendo libri di importazione) però non eccessivamente lunga (5giorni circa).