Lady Chatterley's lover and D. H. Lawrence's awareness of 'his contemporaries' minds' (特集 D.H.ロレンス--新しい「読み」への試み)

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Lady Chatterley's Lover illuminates the depth of D.H. Lawrence's challenge to his contemporaries; he writes in A Propos of "Lady Chatterley's Lover": 'I want men and women to be able to think sex, fully, completely, honestly, and cleanly… Now our business is to realise sex. Today, the full conscious realisation of sex is even more important than the act itself' (LCL 308). This idea, however, is not especially prominent during Connie and Mellors' first three sensual encounters. The narrative of the novel, after the Marehay encounter, at times abandons its complexity in order to make a particular point about women-while there is a sequence of episodes in which ideal female behaviour is constructed and presented. The novel asks whether Connie can achieve liberation through submitting herself to a genuinely unselfconscious sensual encounter or whether she remains unwilling to submit fully to such experience. The novel is generally focused on demonstrating how such an impasse can be addressed, but it is perhaps no longer centred on the problem. Lady Chatterley's Lover, with its greater emphasis on its contemporaries' 'full conscious realisation of sex' than on the sexual act itself, might be said to stimulate minds, rather than bodies.
2010-03-31