Chapter 92 "Lady Chatterley's Lover"

experience There is a novel that has been published for more than 30 years. For the sake of whether the content is legitimate, it has been cited in foreign countries. If there is a problem, this is the one by the British novelist Lawrence.Lawrence Ben Man died long ago in 1930. Lawrence's book, of course, is not a pornographic book.But its content, has There are indeed many obscene descriptions in some places.However, the content of a book contains several obscene descriptions, and It cannot be concluded that this book is a work of obscenity.This distinction, I think, is the easiest for Chinese readers to understand.

Because we have a good example of one.The same is true in France, because the French The distinction between art and pornography is very clear. However, in Britain and the United States, due to the Puritan concept at work, hypocritical feudal moral concepts are As a result, problems continue to occur in these two countries, sometimes banned Stopped, sometimes allowed to sell, has been making trouble until now, more than 30 years. Recently, I read from the newspaper that the state of New York in the United States has ruled that this book is not obscene and rejected the US Postal Service’s

The decision to ban postal delivery of this book.In fact, this kind of trick has been performed many times in the United States. The court ruled to lift the ban, but another state did not allow entry; people were allowed to read it at home, but bookstores were not allowed to sell it openly. It's almost boring to make such a fuss.Really, in the current American pornographic atmosphere so rampant right In light of this, the few lines in Lawrence's novel about the sexual behavior of a pair of lovers seem a bit exaggerated. This is probably the reason why the judge of the New York State District Court voluntarily lifted the ban on this book.

because. As for the reason why this book has always been listed as a banned book in the UK, there are other motives, not simply for Got the "pornography" issue.Because the subject matter of Lawrence's novel has already offended the decline of British society. The dignity of the ethnic class caught their sore feet.I think it is for this reason that Lawrence Write so happily about the tryst between "Lady Chatterley", who is a noble lady, and the gardener dripping.Because Lawrence hated those people's hypocrisy and Puritan ideas, he has more than once In their own works exposed their domineering and hypocritical face.

However, this can offend these people, so Lawrence's works were not only banned at the time. One, and attacking him in various ways, almost driving him to death up. First edition of 1,000 copies printed in Emerald, Italy in 1928 Afterwards, there was no problem with the pre-ordered release in mainland Europe, but when it was sent to the UK, the problem came out immediately. gave birth.Lawrence originally entrusted his friend Aldington to handle the reservation of this book in China. Yes, but the first batch of imported books was detained by the customs and post office inspectors, and the London police did not

I kept searching the bookstores suspected of selling the book, but only confiscated it when I saw it, and never filed charges. v.Some stable bookstores, unwilling to cause trouble for the consignment of this book, have returned the stored books to Lawrence, so only a few copies circulate in England. But with Lawrence's reputation in literature, coupled with the whispers in the literary world about gender The bold description of the relationship, the sale of a mere thousand copies is not worrying, so although the UK itself does not Imported Xu, although the price is two pounds, this limited edition emerald green book sold out quickly.followed by lawrence

In Paris, an ordinary version with a lower price was published, but Britain and the United States are still not allowed to enter the country. confiscate it and file a complaint against the bookstore that sold it. Since the book was banned in Britain and the United States, Lawrence could not obtain a copyright registration certificate in his country, so he Not guaranteed by international copyright laws.Profit-seeking scholars took advantage of this weakness and translated a large number of books in Paris. Print this book and sell it to countries in the European continent and Britain and the United States at a cheaper price.Aldington writes to Lawrence

Say: "Officials in the United Kingdom and the United States confiscated the book one after another and took it home as a gift. his own wife or mistress, and at the same time, reprints of Shu Jia are also secretly circulating everywhere..." This situation naturally made Lawrence very angry, coupled with the critical reaction of the book in China, although With the support of Bernard Shaw and others, there are also many people who criticize fiercely. Some people are usually better than Lawrence. Friends, it was a big blow to him.He used to have a lung disease, but at this time his condition took a turn for the worse. In the book published

In the third year, in March 1930, he died in a small village on the south coast of France, and lived only four years. sixteen years old. There is already a Chinese translation in our country, which was published in Beijing many years ago. edition.A few years ago, there was a reprint of this translation in Hong Kong, but it was claimed to be published in Japan.as for this book There have been several reprints of the English original in our country, the earliest one was published in 1934 (Second Years of the Republic of China) Thirteen years) was published, reprinted by the Beijing Literature and Art Research Institute, the printing is very good, the price is one yuan

Fifty cents, and only one yuan for reservations.I still have the pre-order advertisement for this book handy, and they use "Life's a joy, snow Read banned books behind closed doors at night" to appeal, and the advertisement stated that the concierges of Peking University, Tsinghua University, Normal University, and Yanjing University were all It's the reservation agency for this book.Later, some bookstores in Shanghai specialized in reprinting books in foreign languages, and they also reprinted them. This book, however, is printed in a blurry and crude manner, making it unreadable.