Under the Bonds of Civilization - Selected Essays of D.H. Lawrence

Author: [British] D.H. Lawrence, translated by Yao Jirong
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: I know, I am the entrance of creativity, like a seed that unknowingly receives sunlight and grows in it. I open my heart, welcome the invisible warmth of great primal creativity, and begin to fulfill my mission. Sex should be a true exchange, a true flow of sympathy, generous and warm, rather than trickery, impulse, or pure coercion. Sex is a powerful, beneficial, and necessary stimulus in human life. When we feel it as warm as sunlight naturally flowing through our entire being, each of us experiences gratitude. If honesty is lost, then everything is lost. Life becomes unbearable. Lawrence's essays are shocking! Deeply shaken to the core of the soul, the world undergoes revolutionary and radical changes before your eyes. It is no longer the known world but is returned to, reduced to a complete, novel, and unknown world! For years, people have attached this label to Lawrence—author of erotic novels! Thus, their understanding of Lawrence is complete and final, leaving no possibility for further exploration. What exactly is this "author of erotic novels" talking about? Lawrence is no longer in vogue. Erotic novels, the works of today's big-name writers and female authors, are far more stimulating and exciting, with language that is far more "edgy." The explicit images in various media—magazines, television, films, and the internet—leave one overwhelmed. In the early 1980s, after China's reform and opening-up, there were none of these things. Back then, Lawrence was very popular, and people read his novels for enjoyment. Now, who still reads him? He is too healthy, too normal, too natural—"too human, too human!"