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The story of unequal animal love in one of the most scandalous novels of the twentieth century. The premiere reading took place on Czech Radio Vltava in January 2021. It was one of the most scandalous novels of the first half of the 20th century. It was first published in the late 1920s in Florence and Paris, but its publication was banned in the author's native Britain until the 1960s. Thus, English cultural tourists secretly brought it back from trips to the continent as a spicy souvenir, which perhaps further fueled its 'bad reputation.' By the way, the book was first published in Czech in 1930 – and it did not cause any scandal. Perhaps this was also because Czech readers did not experience the sharp criticism of British society as intensely, which could provoke stronger disapproval among the council of approvers and censors across the Channel than the alleged obscenity of the book. Because Lady Chatterley's Lover is perhaps an erotic novel, but certainly not obscene. The boundary between these terms has always been and will always be quite fluid. 'The priest of love, D. H. Lawrence, sanctified eroticism and sex, elevating them to a sacred ritual, a pagan ceremony connected with the rhythm of the seasons, with the movement of the sun in the sky, with the moon, the stars, with all living and non-living nature. For him, sex was a life-giving…
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Author: Lawrence David Herbert
Publication date: March 22, 2021
Manufacturer: Radioservis a. s.
Genres: Audiobooks on cd, Audiobooks - world literature, Books
Type: Audiobooks on mp3 cd
ISBN/EAN: 8590236110120

