DH Lawrence [113] - "Women In Love"
I'm currently listening to Sterling Audio presentation of DH Lawrence's [113]
Women in Love. It is read (very well) by Maureen O'Brien and is, of course, unabridged.
I'm finding it a fascinating read. He gets a fairly long entry by Fadiman in the
NLRP, where he admits to not particularily liking the man, but admiring his work.
The most striking thing to me about the writing is his way of repeating adjectives and adverbs, often several times within a single paragraph:
Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands. Yet forward she went, through the whole sordid gamut of pettiness, the long amorphous, gritty street.
And many many other examples of this. When I write, I tend to avoid this like the plague, but Lawrence revels in it, almost overdoes it. It is a real cool effect.
Posted by jdarnold at July 26, 2005 10:01 PM