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Why the Novel Matters
Why the Novel Matters is an essay written by D.H. Lawrence. It was included in the essay collection Phoenix, published posthumously in 1936.
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10 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 1936
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D.H. Lawrence
2,084 books4,198 followersDavid Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English writer of the 20th century, whose prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, literary criticism, and personal letters. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct.
Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage." At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel. He is now generally valued as a visionary thinker and a significant representative of modernism in English literature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.H._Law...
Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage." At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the influential Cambridge critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness, placing much of Lawrence's fiction within the canonical "great tradition" of the English novel. He is now generally valued as a visionary thinker and a significant representative of modernism in English literature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.H._Law...
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June 12, 2017
Novel is all about novelty I would say. And life also.
By live Lawrence means changing constantly or else one is no more than a pepper pot.
I quite like the tone in this essay. It's not too academically serious yet informative and inspiring.
I love especially the many funny and ridiculous allegory he had made.
We, likewise, in life have got to live, or we are nothing.
By live Lawrence means changing constantly or else one is no more than a pepper pot.
I quite like the tone in this essay. It's not too academically serious yet informative and inspiring.
I love especially the many funny and ridiculous allegory he had made.
June 5, 2020
A short, overdramatic and sentimentally charged essay about the Novel that glorifies it as some kind of spiritual panacea. It's so sentimental, it's almost religious.
April 21, 2023
so philosophical and absolutely loved reading. basically underlined the whole thing from how good it was.
January 30, 2025
To live is to change
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