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Maddox examines Lawrence's perplexing life through an examination of his marriage to Baroness Frieda von Richthofen Weekley. Without overlooking his misogyny, anti-Semitism, flirtation with fascism, and other defects, as well as new revelations about his tuberculosis, his many friendships, and his complicated sexual life, Maddox presents a portrait of a vulnerable, likeable Lawrence: a hilarious mimic, a lover of nature, an inspired teacher, a brilliant journalist, and, above all--as he saw himself--a married man. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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出版社周刊评论
Maddox's (Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom) epic biography, drawing on 2000 previously unpublished letters, portrays the volatile union between ``the genius and the Valkyrie'' with subtlety, wit and compassion. The novels of British modernist Lawrence (1885-1930) incite carking disagreement; Lady Chatterley's Lover has been characterized as a frank and lyrical exploration of erotic love and ``the foulest book in English literature.'' As the author shows, the conflicts that animate Lawrence's fiction-between the miner and the aristocrat, exuberant heterosexuality and ambivalent homoeroticism, the Tory and the iconoclast-were grounded not only in his parents' hostile marriage, but also in his own. Yet Maddox carefully explores the bonds that allowed a match between such different people-irascible, tubercular Lawrence and outspoken, sexually adventurous Baroness Frieda von Richthofen Weekley-not only to endure but to flourish. That two such hyperbolic temperaments, riding the crest of the avant-garde, found solace and sustenance in homely domesticity is a beguiling theme of this remarkable book. Photos not seen by PW. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
Maddox (Nora, 1988) focuses on Lawrence's tumultuous union with a German aristocrat as the major factor goading him to his artistic quantum leaps. The working-class literary novice from the Midlands could not have found a more exotic wife than Frieda von Richthofen Weekley. A sexually adventurous woman with links to the radical culture in Germany (Nietzsche, expressionism, anarchism, and psychoanalysis), Frieda gave up her English husband and three children to join Lawrence in his intercontinental travels. Many of Lawrence's friends found Frieda crude and sententious in contrast to her charming, charismatic husband (who later turned out near-libelous caricatures of them in his books), but throughout the Lawrences' turbulent married life their guests and hosts would be treated, alternately, to scenes of the couple's contented domesticity and Lawrence's appalling abuse, both verbal and physical. The marriage was a childless one, and Frieda sacrificed a role in the lives of her children from her first marriage to Lawrence's emotional needs. Frieda's devoted adoration of Lawrence as a literary genius was balanced by her own conceited ambition to serve as his companion and inspiration, a job for which few others had the stamina. Despite her infidelities, sexual demands, and jealousy, Lawrence found in her enough feminine stimulation to fuel his creativity over a lifetime. While Maddox underplays his Midlands background, she perceptively handles Lawrence's pathological denial of his tuberculosis and his homosexual ambivalence, as well as his flawed literary output and incoherent philosophy. Her new material includes such surprises as an affair the previously presumed monogamous Lawrence had in Italy and his ambiguous relationship with the homosexual Maurice Magnus, for whose posthumous memoir he provided a notorious introduction. The story Maddox tells is one of continuous emotional skirmishes between two highly contradictory personalities, each lacking self-knowledge, each obsessed with the other. She tells it judiciously and well.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Twenty years ago, students of Lawrence used to wade through the biographies, and even the studies, with a heavy heart. Even writers who started out with the apparent attempt to be objective couldn't help but slip into an attack of Lawrence or one of his friends or one of his critics--or, if all that failed, Lawrence's wife, Frieda. Now all that has changed. In addition, scores of letters by Lawrence and the people around him have come to light in the last two or three years. All of which really does justify yet another biography and yet another review praising that biography. The essential facts of Lawrence's life are well known, but much of the information in Maddox's work about his early relationship with Frieda and her relationship to Freud's disciple Otto Gross is new. Just as important, though, is her attitude and approach: it is scrupulously fair, well-balanced, and subtly insightful. No one so far has better captured the nature of Lawrence's relationship to the women around him. If one had to have one general biography, this might be it. ~--Stuart Whitwell
Choice 评论
Winner of Britain's Whitbread Award for Biography, this highly readable narrative uses extensive material from the seven-volume Cambridge Univ. Press's The Letters of D.H. Lawrence (Vol. 7, 1993) and Lawrence's barely fictionalized novel Mr. Noon (CH, Mar'85) to present a new, more complex portrait of Lawrence. Maddox (Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom, CH, Dec'88) begins with Lawrence's teaching years in Croydon, 1908-1912, and then details Lawrence's stormy, perplexing, yet binding marriage to Freida Von Richthofen Weekley, which she views as "the encompassing whole" of the author. Other newly published materials assist Maddox in posing answers to questions concerning Lawrence's health, hard work, collaborations, longings for a strong male bond, idealization of marriage, and search for a planned Utopian community. Her full portrait includes Lawrence as novelist, essayist, journalist, and traveler and adds Lawrence the husband, uncle, brother, adulterer, and friend as well as misogynist and antisemite. Especially intriguing is her account of Lawrence in Australia. Lawrence's battle with and denial of his tuberculosis provides a second theme as Maddox shows him determined "to live to the full" his short life. Illustrated. For all readers and libraries. J. C. Kohl; Dutchess Community College
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Maddox, best known for Nora (LJ 6/15/88), her excellent biography of James Joyce's wife, chooses to examine Lawrence's life "through the greatest contradiction in it: his marriage" to Frieda von Richthofen Weekley. This perspective gives effective shape to her book. Maddox was able to make use of all seven volumes of the Cambridge University Press's edition of Lawrence's letters, but her biography doesn't claim great originality. Instead, it offers a vivid, balanced, readable, and occasionally jarring portrait of Lawrence and Frieda and their "mismatch made in heaven." Livelier than Jeffrey Meyer's D.H. Lawrence (LJ 5/15/90), another recent mass-market life of Lawrence, Maddox's work aims for a more general audience than the authoritative three-volume Cambridge biography, one volume of which has been published (John Worthen, D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years, 1885-1912, LJ 7/91). For general literature collections.-Keith Cushman, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.