Die blauen Mokassins - Erzählungen

by D.H. Lawrence, Martin Beheim-Schwarzbach (Translator)

The Blue Moccasins (+Biography and Bibliography) (Matte Cover Finish): This book is one of the most popular novels of David Herbert Lawrence, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally

124 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1996

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

[Kristi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having recently read Joyce and Kafka, I found it a pleasure to read D. H. Lawrence. I do not need my books to have great symbolism and hidden meanings to be excellent reading material. Lawrence writes beautifully and tells this tale in a manner which I believe almost everyone can understand. The blue moccasins, purchased when Lina was young and adventurous, are certainly a symbol of her youth which time eventually steals especially because they never fit her feet. The mature woman marries a man many years her junior. He has no identity, worships her, and is a sexual partner. It made me think of adopting a puppy. Lina cannot stand that her husband has no life and just sits and watches her as she paints. She arranges work and activities for him and he finally sees that he is married to an old woman whom he no longer desires. He steals the blue mocassins from his wife to use in a play just as time steals her youth. I reject the idea that an older woman should not marry a young man. The young man must be an intellectual equal, not a puppy. I liked the story, but felt very sad for Lina. Kristi & Abby Tabby Childless Cat Lady