The Chinese translation of this book appeared in 1936, and the earliest translator signed "forgive one". So whose meaningful pen name is this? This has become a literary case and is still a mystery.
What kind of story does this book tell? Why did his publishing experience so much trouble? And the translator of Chinese translation has to hide his identity?
Connie, the hero of the novel, was born in a scholarly family. Her father is a well-known member of the Royal Society of Art-Sir Malcolm Luther; Her mother is also quite literate. Connie and her sister Hilda grew up under the influence of art. They have been to many places.
Connie has a good image. She has a ruddy complexion, a strong figure, brown hair and big eyes, and she is slow and energetic.
Connie and her sister were both sent to study in Dresden at the age of fifteen, mainly studying music. They had a good time there, mingled with their classmates, debated philosophy, art and sociology with boys, and performed as well or even better as men.
There, they went hiking in the forest with the guy who played the guitar. They both tasted the forbidden fruit when they were eighteen. Just as they were immersed in the free world and living a carefree life, World War I broke out and their parents urged them to go home.
19 14 years, their German boyfriends died, the two sisters cried, and their lives continued.
Connie met Cliff Chatterley at work. Cliff was 22 years old. He studied mining technology in Bonn, but returned to China only because of the war. He studied in Cambridge for two years before, and when the war broke out, he became a lieutenant of a regiment.
Cliff Chatterley's class is higher than Connie's. He is a noble, his father is a baron, and his mother is the daughter of the viscount.
19 17, Connie married Cliff Chatterley when he went home for a holiday. A month later, Cliff returned to the battlefield in Flanders, and half a year later, he was brought back by warships one by one.
Connie was twenty-three and Cliff was twenty-nine. He survived, but he was paralyzed forever from the waist down.
Connie and Cliff returned to their hometown-Legoby. Cliff's father died, and he inherited the baron's position and an estate. Connie became Lady Chatterley. They lived a simple husband-and-wife life in the depressed Chatterley old house.
In this stagnant life, Connie is getting thinner and thinner, and withers like a flower.
She is getting more and more uneasy. She doesn't touch people, her heart is always pounding for no reason, and people are getting thinner and thinner.
Cliff started writing at the manor and became famous at one fell swoop.
But Connie thinks Cliff's novels are empty and have no connotation, and many of Cliff's literary friends or friends are also boasting.
Those men, especially those who have passed away, are flattering her, but as long as she shows a little amorous feelings, Cliff is very uncomfortable.
Therefore, she tries to suppress herself and never smiles at people. She is silent and doesn't want to have anything to do with them.
A few years later, she secretly cheated a distant friend of Cliff. Although she is not satisfied with this man, she keeps in touch with him occasionally.
Later, Downey and melrose, the gardener of the manor, had a heart-to-heart relationship. They kept themselves away from others and enjoyed themselves.
Finally, Connie decided to leave Cliff. She is pregnant with melrose's baby, and she wants to live with melrose.
As soon as the book came out, it caused an uproar. Lawrence was brutally abused by many people, and of course some people worshipped him.
What is the most critical thing about Lawrence's works? Color description.
The honest and frank description of sex in the book was stopped by the guards. It was not until the court pronounced "not guilty" that the book was widely circulated.
In addition, Connie's cross-class love was also "besieged and banned" by the nobles at that time.
Britain is a country with a particularly serious hierarchy. Connie and Cliff in the novel have been separated for many years and are getting thinner.
Her father advised her to find a lover for herself, her husband Cliff also said that they could have a child, and Connie's sister took her out of the house.
But they obviously all acquiesced that her lover must be a nobleman. Connie also had many opportunities to find a noble lover, but she chose the gardener melrose.
This was not only fiercely opposed by everyone in the book, but also not recognized by the nobles at that time after publication.
This novel was criticized at that time, but now it should be the values conveyed by the author's borrowing books.
Lawrence believes that a person does not necessarily require happiness or greatness, but should know how to live and be a real person. And to be a real person and live a real life, we must make life surge like excitement.
He believes that the morality, habits and social system at that time bound the natural development of human nature. The evolution of enlightenment and civilization was originally intended to make human beings more suitable for survival, but at that time, enlightenment and civilization plunged people into the darkness of mechanization, and life itself did not arouse people's interest.
There are always people who teach people to die mechanically. People are used to being slaves of money and bound by so-called modern civilization.
He tells people through novels that we should get rid of all the taboos in the past, start from the place where we need it most and produce new morality, new life and new life with love.
Two years after the novel was published, Lawrence died of depression under siege.
He was born into a noble family, married a beautiful wife and won honor on the battlefield. He published novels and was sought after by people. Later, he started an industry-developing family mining. It can be described as fame and fortune.
Cliff is cold. He associates with people of status. If he has to deal with the villagers, he puts on a noble and arrogant shelf. He scoffed at anyone who didn't belong to his own class, and maintained his lofty position without any hypocrisy.
He longed for modern civilization and always believed in the power of machines. When he was trapped in weeds in a wheelchair, he believed that his wheelchair could help him out, instead of melrose standing next to him. Of course, in the end, melrose helped him on his own.
He insisted on proving that he could rely on machines like a normal person, but the reality made him depressed.
He spent a lot of money to equip himself with a set of radio equipment and listen to the broadcasts in Madrid or Frankfurt. He often sits for hours at a time, listening to the loudspeaker and shouting at the top of his lungs.
It is such a "successful" person, but the author arranged the fate of his lower body paralysis, and he lost the opportunity to enjoy the most authentic pleasure of life.
Many times in the book, even though she comes from a famous family, she looks like a country girl.
She likes nature. She often likes to walk in Legoby's manor. She will cry because she touched a chicken.
She and Cliff are getting farther and farther away, not all because of Cliff's physical problems, but mainly because of the growing ideological gap between them.
She is kind and has been with Cliff for many years. She did her duty as a wife, taking care of his diet and daily life, but she couldn't stand Cliff's lofty behavior and superficial and empty creation. When a maid took care of Cliff's life instead of her, they gradually drifted apart.
Just then, she met melrose.
Unlike Cliff and his friends who are aristocrats or successful people, Meles lives a more real life.
One of Cliff's friends, Med, thinks that sleeping with a woman is more harmful to her than dancing or chatting with her. It's just emotional communication, not sexual communication
Melrose is obviously not so casual. He went out to fight, his wife eloped with someone, and he came back to live alone.
He loves life, works as Cliff's gardener and takes care of some small animals. He lived a quiet life before he met Connie. In fact, he has been abstaining.
He hopes that he will never have anything to do with any woman again. I just want to live alone and keep my privacy, alone.
He actually has a chance to become a "successful person". He has excellent grades and knows several foreign languages. He got along well in the army, but he gave up the opportunity of promotion in the army, returned to his hometown and chose to be with nature.
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The reasons why he chose to leave high society are: kowtowing, kissing ass and licking fart? Femur, licking the base of tongue is stiff, or they are all right! The worst part is pretending.
The author portrays melrose as the antithesis of nobility.
He lives in nature, foraging, making fire and cooking by himself, keeping company with nature, calm and simple.
So in the end, Connie and melrose merged physically and mentally. Connie decided to leave Cliff mainly because of their ideological disagreement.
In a letter to Connie, melrose said, "I think there are countless big white greedy hands in the air. As long as someone is determined to live a real life and live a life beyond money, these strange hands will grab those people by the neck and kill them abruptly. "
Indeed, at the end of the novel, they can't really live together. Melrose's wife is making trouble, and Cliff doesn't agree to divorce Connie.
But they are all preparing for the future, for real life.
Oscar Wilde said that loving oneself is the beginning of romantic life. It's almost a century since this novel came out, and many people are still living in the pursuit of fame and fortune, forgetting their own life as individuals. This novel is still awkward to talk about, which may be the reason why the translator has never disclosed his real name.
"fame and fortune are locked, the sky is thin", love yourself, and start from respecting your feelings.