D.H Lawrence

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Originally Posted by Des Essientes

Another one of Lawrence's books that enraged the censors is the novella entitled "The Man Who Died". He had to publish it in France under the title "The Escaped ****". It tells the tale of Jesus, who having survived his crucifixion, leaves his tomb and sees a rooster, and this little flame of life inspires him to embrace the world, carnality included. He travels to an island in the sea and beds a beautiful priestess of Isis, miraculously escaping from any domestic entanglements too!

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That sounds great. I like novellas. I couldn't get into Tolstoy but I liked his novella The Cossacks. Dostoevsky' novella The Gambler was one of my favorite works by him.

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Originally Posted by Des Essientes

He had to publish it in France under the title "The Escaped ****"

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A rather unfortunate title.

The Escaped . . . what? It could be any number of four letter choices.

****. I googled it just now.

Edit: Oh no! It got automatically censored! First time that's happened to me.

I sense a game of censorship charades is upon us! What does it rhyme with?

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Originally Posted by Mutatis-Mutandis

The Escaped . . . what? It could be any number of four letter choices.

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It's another word for rooster :)

I personally think that Women In Love is his finest production. Other than his fascination with the natural world his main obsession and source of material was human relationships, and with that book you have his virtuoso depictions of not just love between man and woman but also love between man and man, which I suspect he valued just as much, from what I've read of his letters.

Lady Chatterly is a short novel and the one that he's most known for as well as the one that first got me into him..... I'd say it actually changed my life since it turned me from philosophy to art... so you can't go wrong with that either.