劳伦斯（1885-1930）是二十世纪英国最独特和最有争议的作家之一。他生于诺丁汉一个矿工家庭，二十一岁时入诺丁汉大学学习，一生中创作了四十余部小说、诗歌、游记等作品，《儿子与情人》被认为是其最好的小说。劳伦斯提倡人性自由发展，反对工业文明对自然的破坏。他的作品对家庭、婚姻和性进行了深入探索，对20世纪的小说写作产生了广泛影响。她是英国诗人、小说家、散文家，曾在国内外漂泊十多年。他写过诗，但主要写长篇小说，共有 10 部，最著名的为《虹》（ 1915 ）、《爱恋中的女人》（ 1921 ）和《查特莱夫人的情人》（ 1928 ）。《查特莱夫人的情人》是劳伦斯的最后一部小说。劳伦斯相信，人类的性爱具有至高无上的价值，也许这个世界上没有一个作家能像他那样，以宗教般的热忱赞美人间性爱，以细腻微妙的笔触描绘两性关系中那种欲仙欲死的境界，而那伴随着炽烈的性爱体验的，是对历史、政治、宗教、经济等社会问题的严肃思考。由于小说毫不隐晦地描写了性爱，因而被斥为淫秽作品，并遭查禁。1959年出版此书的英国企鹅出版社还被控犯有出版淫秽作品罪，引起了轰动整个西方出版界的官司。直到1960年10月伦敦中央刑事法院裁定出版社无罪，小说才得以解禁。《查特莱夫人的情人》虽然命运坎坷，但终以其严肃的寓意、社会批判的主题，真切透辟的写实手法和细腻深刻的心理描写成为名著，并对现当代英国乃至西方文学产生了重大影响。

Lady Chatterley's Lover has been notorious since it was written. Banned for 30 years, it was published, unexpurgated, by Penguin Books in 1960. And immediately became the first novel charged under the newly written Obscene Publications Act. During the trial the prosecution seemed often to consider that it was Constance Chatterley's adultery that was on trial and not the book itself. Support was given to the literary qualities of the book by dozens of expert witnesses. It was acquitted in a blaze of publicity and memorable quotes from the trial will live as long as the book. "Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters-because girls can read as well as boys- reading this book? Is it a book you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" Mr. Griffith-Jones, Prosecuting Counsel. "I've read a lot of pornographic and obscene boooks, and Lady Chatterley's Lover is not one of them" Mr. Norman St John-Stevas MP "Lady Chatterley's Lover is full of sentences which are badly written. Lawrence had absolutely no sense of humour but I would still say this is a book of undoubted literary merit" Dame Rebecca West, Novelist Hunt Emerson has reworked Lawrence's story, keeping all the plot and a lot of the dialogue, while adding the humour that was noticeably absent from the original.

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