勞倫斯（1885-1930）是二十世紀英國最獨特和最有爭議的作傢之一。他生於諾丁漢一個礦工傢庭，二十一歲時入諾丁漢大學學習，一生中創作瞭四十餘部小說、詩歌、遊記等作品，《兒子與情人》被認為是其最好的小說。勞倫斯提倡人性自由發展，反對工業文明對自然的破壞。他的作品對傢庭、婚姻和性進行瞭深入探索，對20世紀的小說寫作産生瞭廣泛影響。她是英國詩人、小說傢、散文傢，曾在國內外漂泊十多年。他寫過詩，但主要寫長篇小說，共有 10 部，最著名的為《虹》（ 1915 ）、《愛戀中的女人》（ 1921 ）和《查特萊夫人的情人》（ 1928 ）。《查特萊夫人的情人》是勞倫斯的最後一部小說。勞倫斯相信，人類的性愛具有至高無上的價值，也許這個世界上沒有一個作傢能像他那樣，以宗教般的熱忱贊美人間性愛，以細膩微妙的筆觸描繪兩性關係中那種欲仙欲死的境界，而那伴隨著熾烈的性愛體驗的，是對曆史、政治、宗教、經濟等社會問題的嚴肅思考。由於小說毫不隱晦地描寫瞭性愛，因而被斥為淫穢作品，並遭查禁。1959年齣版此書的英國企鵝齣版社還被控犯有齣版淫穢作品罪，引起瞭轟動整個西方齣版界的官司。直到1960年10月倫敦中央刑事法院裁定齣版社無罪，小說纔得以解禁。《查特萊夫人的情人》雖然命運坎坷，但終以其嚴肅的寓意、社會批判的主題，真切透闢的寫實手法和細膩深刻的心理描寫成為名著，並對現當代英國乃至西方文學産生瞭重大影響。

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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