لبخند

by D.H. Lawrence, سیاوش ملکی (Translator)

‘Smile’ is one of Lawrence's shorter pieces, a thumbnail sketch of an idea. A man is relieved that his wife is dead and struggles to hide his relief when confronted with his wife's body. The relief breaks out in a smile which he struggles to excuse. How much better it would have been, Lawrence seems to be saying, if he had just laughed out loud!

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

10 pages, ebook

First published June 29, 2014

About the author

David 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.
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Reviews

[Moneeza Rafiq · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just a smile, and yet the way your lips curve tells you so much about a person's inner thoughts! You never know just what lurks behind it.

[Sheryl V · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not for me.
Didnt really get it I supposed. Almost disturbing.

[Beyza · Rating 4 out of 5]

"İçinin derinliklerinde karanlık ve sıkıcı bir ağırlık vardı: Sanki hayati organlarını ezen saf kasvetle dolu bir tümör gibi. Hayatı her zaman ciddiye almıştı. Şimdi ciddiyet onu boğuyordu." Sf 5

[Maryam · Rating 3 out of 5]

ریتم داستان کسل کنندس اما موضوع مردی کهت باهمسرش اختلاف داشتن حالا خبررسید همسرش مرده و مرد بین حس غم یا شادی مونده چشمش هم همش دنبال راهبه ها بود😂
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[delimatulis]

I don't know how to rate this and I don't exactly understand it - felt like an inside joke that I was left out of. Kinda creepy in a way? Gave me the heebie jeebies

[Lunacy · Rating 3 out of 5]

داستان زوجیه که باهم کلی اختلاف دارن و وقتی که خبر مرگ زن به شوهرش می‌رسه، مرد نمی‌دونه باید از این خبر ناراحت و اندوهگین باشه یا مسرور و لبخند بزنه!

[Shreya Ghode · Rating 3 out of 5]

sort of lighthearted but too deep if you think about it