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better than I expected and an easier read as well.
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Ken posted a review at .
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Beautifully written. A fascinating study of the interplay between love and hate for those closest to us.
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Although it is perfectly clear that D. H. Lawrence, while writing Sons and Lovers, was heavily influnced by the mainstream movement of Psychological Realism that started to take shape in the early 20th century, he could not fully embody the soul of the movement into his novel. Psychological Realism is simply shedding light on real aspects of life (events, characters.. etc) from a psychological point of view. However, that does not mean the work of art should turn into a blunt scientifically-put psychological analysis, ignoring all the aesthetic factors that make this “work” belong to “art.” In Sons and Lovers, Lawrence completely engaged himself in delineating the minutest emotions and actions of his characters with a detailed description of the reason behind the occurrence of each, which leaves the reader completely lost in a huge psychological maze, making no heads or tails of the characters’ true feelings and needs! Besides, the lack of events and Lawrence’s exaggeration of using dry psychology have given the story an interminable effect that stickingly accompanies the reader throughout the novel. Nevertheless, the novel is considered one of the most famous works in modern history that vividly manifest the well-known Oedipus Complex through the realtionship between Paul Morel and his mother which has clearly controlled the the young man’s decisions and love relationships. Mrs. Morel to Paul is “a goddess”… the infinite portrayal of “the perfect woman.” She is the reason why he lives everyday… why he pursues his dreams. Everything he does is just to please her. The other female characters are only fragments of women to him; Miriam is the soul lacking the body, while Clara is the body devoid of the soul. That’s why the novel, which mainly tells the story of Paul’s life, ends with the mother’s death, as if Paul Morel’s life itself has stopped… ceased to exist. Bottomline, I can’t call Sons and Lovers an enjoyable novel, yet it can be considered an indulgent autobiographical psychological analysis of the writer’s childhood and youth.
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A reader posted a review at .
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Although it is perfectly clear that D. H. Lawrence, while writing Sons and Lovers, was heavily influnced by the mainstream movement of Psychological Realism that started to take shape in the early 20th century, he could not fully embody the soul of the movement into his novel. Psychological Realism is simply shedding light on real aspects of life (events, characters.. etc) from a psychological point of view. However, that does not mean the work of art should turn into a blunt scientifically-put psychological analysis, ignoring all the aesthetic factors that make this “work” belong to “art.” In Sons and Lovers, Lawrence completely engaged himself in delineating the minutest emotions and actions of his characters with a detailed description of the reason behind the occurrence of each, which leaves the reader completely lost in a huge psychological maze, making no heads or tails of the characters’ true feelings and needs! Besides, the lack of events and Lawrence’s exaggeration of using dry psychology have given the story an interminable effect that stickingly accompanies the reader throughout the novel. Nevertheless, the novel is considered one of the most famous works in modern history that vividly manifest the well-known Oedipus Complex through the realtionship between Paul Morel and his mother which has clearly controlled the the young man’s decisions and love relationships. Mrs. Morel to Paul is “a goddess”… the infinite portrayal of “the perfect woman.” She is the reason why he lives everyday… why he pursues his dreams. Everything he does is just to please her. The other female characters are only fragments of women to him; Miriam is the soul lacking the body, while Clara is the body devoid of the soul. That’s why the novel, which mainly tells the story of Paul’s life, ends with the mother’s death, as if Paul Morel’s life itself has stopped… ceased to exist. Bottomline, I can’t call Sons and Lovers an enjoyable novel, yet it can be considered an indulgent autobiographical psychological analysis of the writer’s childhood and youth.
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Vidya Sundaram posted a review at .
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one of the first modern novels in english,sons and lovers is an intriguing intense n ingenious story of Paul Morel and his obsessed love for his mother Gertrude Morel and how it affects his affairs with other women-Miriam and Clara...It made me uncomfortable and I suspect that's what the author intended too..
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Mike posted a review at .
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Lawrence is one of those famous 20th-century writers I have never read. Till now! I read the 1992 version that restores Lawrence's original manuscript (in other words, more sex), and I found it not at all what I was expecting. That is, I had expected it to be excessively romantic and written in an ornate style; however, I found the prose and characterizations quite brisk and readable, presenting more of a continuum with late-19th century style fiction than I had anticipated. The novel tells the tale of the Morels, a coal-mining family in Nottingham, with particular emphasis on the middle son, Paul. The early chapters detail his parents' romantic courtship and happy early marriage, which inexorably devolves into a brooding, angry, loveless marriage. By the time Paul is born, his parents are barely speaking to each other. I liked the descriptions of coal-mining, and I very much enjoyed the scenes of Paul's first job as a clerk for a womanswear company. We meet so many clerks in British novels - for the first time I got an actual sense of what that job was like on a day-to-day basis. All the characters in the factory are vividly drawn and seem like real people. On the other hand, I found the book surprisingly haphazard and disorganized, which is a typical sign of an autobiographical novel. Lawrence based the book on his own childhood and his close (very close) relationship with his mother. Perhaps because he did not have much distance from his own childhood (he was only 25 when he wrote this novel), he fails to give the story much structure - the narrative switches back in forth in time and perspective willy-nilly, and scenes and characters appear to be included not because they make narrative sense but because they happened to Lawrence and he wanted to put them in. However, this book had a lot of power, and I am glad I read it. The relationship between Paul and his mother, and Paul's later, futile attempts to recreate that closeness with other women, is extremely memorable and well done. And while the sex (you were wondering when I would get back to that!) is tame, it's not as tame as I was expecting, and certainly not romanticized. Erotic and carnal, not salacious. So, there you go.
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I'm waiting for the "shocking" part mentioned in the review. Read on ...
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Very good book, will account for a good reading
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