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    El Amante De Lady Chatterley
    El Amante De Lady Chatterley
    El Amante De Lady Chatterley
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    El Amante De Lady Chatterley

    Written by D. H. Lawrence

    Narrated by Fabio Camero

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    La obra prohibida por revelar hipocresias. Cuando Lawrence publico en 1928 su ultima novela, desato la furia de quienes se sentian aludidos por ella y que se apresuraron a declarar la obra como inmoral y a prohibirla. La verdad es que Lawrence en esta novela simbolizo en Lord Chatterley a todo el imperio britanico, paralizado e impotente, mientras que su esposa, ante la incapacidad del marido encontraba en un hombre de la clase media una alternativa. Los simbolos eran demasiado obvios para que Lawrence fuera perdonado y solo la labor de la justicia, que declaro que se trataba de una obra de grandes meritos literarios, logro acabar con las prohibiciones. Pero ademas de su profundo ataque a la hipocresia, se trata de una novela de argumento entretenido y por eso ha sido considerada como una de las grandes obras de la literatura inglesa del siglo XX.
    LanguageEspañol
    PublisherYOYO USA
    Release dateJan 1, 2001
    ISBN9781611553017
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    D. H. Lawrence

    David Herbert Lawrence (Eastwood, Inglaterra, 1885-Vence, Francia, 1930) fue uno de los escritores más controvertidos de la literatura británica del pasado siglo. Sus novelas fueron sistemáticamente prohibidas o censuradas por su descripción de las relaciones amorosas como forma de conocimiento. Entre su extensa obra, que abarca todos los géneros, cabe destacar, Hijos y amantes, El arco iris, Mujeres enamoradas o El amante de Lady Chatterley.

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    • 4/5
      This book was a great look at the 1920's, the struggle between classes and the impact the further development of the coal mining industry had in England at the time. We get to see our protagonist fight an inner battle against form and custome to become her self and find happiness and fullfillment.I admire the way Mr. Lawrence took on society at the time, he was a revolutionary man in the way he offered both social critique and his view of sex in a time where the written world was hardly an honest reflection of either. I loved the ending, the way Mr. Lawrence finds the place for his characters in life without romanticizing their situation or finding an easy way out. It was as realistic as a novel can get, by the end you know the choices made were not easy, and to live with said choices won't be either, but those choices are what happiness means for them and that is more important than what should be.
    • 4/5
      This is a book everyone is supposed to have read, so I read it--long ago, admittedly. Although I am sure this book was groundbreaking and I am glad to have it under my belt, it doesn't seem to me to be timeless literature that has much to say outside the context of its own time. I will not be reading any more Lawrence.
    • 4/5
      I decided to read this book because it was a famous banned book. It was seen by many as being obscene.This was an interesting book. Some of the sex parts were unintentionally funny (ex. Mellors comparing his wife's vagina to a beak and all the John Thomas/Lady Jane talk). On the other hand it did offer some interesting perspectives on sex. Apart from the sex, this book also offered commentary against industrialization.
    • 4/5
      "Lady Chatterly's Lover" caught my attention as soon as I began reading it. The characters were very realistic, and I liked the elegant, drama-filled writing.The storyline is about an affair. Connie Chatterly is married to a man who has been paralyzed from the waist down. Not only is her husband incapable of performing sexually, but the main character does not love him. So when Connie meets Mellors, a mysterious gamekeeper who works on her husband's estate, she is drawn to him both romantically and sexually. They begin a heated affair, prompting Connie to think about her life, and what she wants from it. For Lawrence's time, this book was shocking. Even today, it is obvious that the author's intention was to surprise the less open minded. This book contains a lot of sex - and I loved the old fashioned descriptions and words used. They simply felt out of place with the X-rated scenes, a combination that I liked.I loved the characters in this book, especially the three main persons of Connie, her husband, and Mellors. They were remarkably realistic. The only thing that I didn't like about this book was that it was so long winded. Much of the book was, though not painful, certainly tedious reading. But, overall, I enjoyed reading my first D.H. Lawrence.
    • 3/5
      When I began reading Lady Chatterley's Lover---the first complete, unexpurgated version published in the United States (in 1959)---I thought it was going to be like Peyton Place: I would be able to see how it might have been shocking at the time, but compared to modern works, it would seem quite tame. Instead, the sex scenes were written incredibly explicitly, and I find them fairly edgy even from a modern perspective. But the thing that saves the sex from being gratuitous and merely pornographic is that it serves a higher narrative purpose than mere titillation (but barely. Which is not intended as a pun. I think it might be impossible to write about this book without a number of unintentional puns).

      Lawrence uses sex to illustrate the central conflict between the intellectual and the physical. Connie initially is described in very physical terms. She's a sturdy Scottish lass, a womanly creature unlike the thin, boyish figures popular for women at that time (the 1920's). She's "full of unused energy," Lawrence tells us. She's not inexperienced in sexual matters, but she sidelines their importance in favor of intellectual intimacy. She goes so far as to marry Clifford, a man for whom sex is also a small matter.

      "No, the intimacy was deeper, more personal than that. And sex was merely an accident, or an adjunct, one of the curious obsolete, organic processes which persisted in its own clumsiness, but was not really necessary."

      When her new husband returns home from the war paralyzed, their relationship turns almost entirely to the intellectual, with the exception of the everyday care-taking of Clifford's physical self, which he insists that Connie---and only Connie---provide for him.

      For a period, Connie is satisfied by the intimacy of their intellectual connection, but after a while, she begins to grow restless. There's this "unused energy" that she's tried to deny, this draw to the physical that she tries to reason herself out of, to no avail. Gradually, she comes to dislike Clifford and seeks to withdraw from him.

      "Between him and Connie there was a tension that each pretended not to notice, but there it was. Suddenly, with all the force of her female instinct, she was shoving him off. She wanted to be clear of him, and especially of his consciousness, his words, his obsession with himself, his endless treadmill obsession with himself, and his own words."

      She outsources Clifford's physical care to a hired servant and distances herself from their intellectual connection, eventually leaving nothing at all between them. Then Mellors enters the story. He is a man who is not unintelligent but who chooses to live and connect more through the body than through the intellect. With him, Connie is drawn into a deeper intimacy than she's ever experienced through intellectual connection.

      In this book, the denial of the physical is evident not just in the bedroom. Everywhere we see the pursuit of profit and intellectual innovation trumping the physical. Lawrence shows us the coal mine, in which the miners toil for three shifts a day, trudging home physically lopsided, deformed by the unnatural work they do underground. He shows us the unnaturally stark light in the bald patch of the forest where a stand of old-growth trees was chopped down to support the war effort. He shows us the ugliness of the town, erected in haste and without care to support the labor needs of the mines. We smell the choking fumes of the mills, so incongruous but so intractable in the otherwise idyllic English countryside.

      The blame for this dangerous and lopsided shift to the intellectual over the physical is borne by both the individual and the culture. The individual is carried away by the prejudices of the culture and the pressures of class, and he feels impotent to effect change. But Lawrence shows us that this is a willing impotence. The individual knows inwardly that there is something missing, something awry, but he refuses to confront it head-on, preferring to sublimate it. When it becomes so apparent that it he can no longer deny it, this missing bit breaks him.

      I can see that Lawrence has shown us this process using sex as the centerpiece. I can see that it's fitting. It's an act and a drive that is so basic and so commonly denied and tabooed by the culture even nearly 100 years after Lawrence wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover that it makes sense to use it to illustrate the denial of the physical in favor of the intellectual. But some of it didn't ring true to me when it came down to a one-man-one-woman level. The initial sexual encounter between Connie and Mellors seemed like it came almost out of nowhere. There was a build-up to it, the tension between the two parties, but it was subtle in contrast to the stark description of the consummation. When it happened, I was like, "Really? Just like that?"

      I didn't really see what drew Connie and Mellors to one another. Once they were together, once I as a reader accepted their closeness to one another, the progression and the deepening intimacy made sense, but the initial couple of encounters seemed unlikely to me. In addition, the language around sex was kind of awkward. If I ever go back and read this book again, I'm going to underline every occurrence of the words "loins" and "womb." I swear they must appear five times on each page. And while I won't go into details, there are really a lot of assumptions that I find distasteful about just what's acceptable and "valid" when it comes to sex---and this is among the participants in the explicit sex scenes, not those trying to deny it.

      For me, the saving grace of the book and what makes it unique among the books that I've read is that the sex really is a vehicle for addressing a broader theme. Even in all its explicitness and all of its assumptions, the sex in this book can really just be looked at as another way of experiencing the physical and making a connection with another person. In the end, I find the book to be about balance and about the danger---to ourselves, to others, to nature and the world at large---of denying an aspect of ourselves.

      It's an interesting read, but definitely not one I want my seven-year-old to open up and say, "What are you reading, Mommy?"
    • 5/5
      Excelente! Despues de muchos años de haberlo leido, ahora disfrutar escuchandolo es una delicia. Ampliamente recomendado
    • 5/5
      toda una leyenda
    • 2/5
      In vergelijking met de andere werken van Lawrence echt een afknapper, ondanks de taboedoorbreking. Het ligt er te dik op om te shockeren. Wel interessante sociale duiding: een verhouding binnen de eigen klasse is aanvaardbaar, erbuiten niet. Opvallende romantisch accent: afkeer van industrie en teloorgang van de oude wereld.
    • 4/5
      Pretty tame by today's standards, but Lawrence's is still the language of life and was the language of a revolution in its day. Probably the most banned book ever.
    • 4/5
      While I liked Lady Chatterley's Lover, it was difficult to keep it in context. The context of Lawrence's novel is 1920's England. The story by today's measure is still good-- it's a little steamy, a little saucy and a little tawdry. Though by 1920's British standards, it is nothing short of scandalous. Therein lies a bump-in-the-road to a full appreciation of the LCL's contribution to literature. Nevertheless, the story is still relevant on certain levels. Sexual expression by women is still something that is viewed with disdain. Differing levels of social acceptance towards female sexuality was one issue Lawrence was railing against-- men with mistresses in proper British society was acceptable, almost expected. But a woman who sought sexual satisfaction from anyone other than her husband was a completely different matter.
      The novel is well written and makes the author's point eloquently. But still, I wonder what would have become of the exact same novel had a woman written it in the same time period.
    • 3/5
      I read this book the first time in my teens, many years ago. Naive and head full of romance I thought it was the best thing I’d ever read. I loved it so much my dad bought me another of the two other versions D.H. Lawrence wrote and I treasured those books beyond any other. Now, a long time since that first read, there’s a new film I enjoyed a couple of weeks ago and I remembered how much I once loved the novel. Curious to see if it stood the test of time and what I’d think of it now, I decided to make it my first read of 2023. I was genuinely looking forward to it. Funny how memory distorts things. The book I read now, other than the fact of Connie’s relationship with Mellors, was so completely different from what I remember I thought I was reading another version. And it was so very tedious. The philosophical ramblings, over and over, and the romantic passages that seemed to drag on…I was bored. Bored, bored, bored. I forced myself to finish but almost gave up.Read with an adult mind, now knowing the glorious and gritty aspects of a genuine adult relationship, I see the interactions between Connie and Mellors as a poor basis for a longtime sustaining partnership. Beyond the sex which, ok I get it, is mind-blowing, there’s so much frequent distance between the two people, with Connie just trying to relate to him and possibly vice versa. It’s difficult to believe they’ll be happy together outside of the bedroom.I can see how the novel would be very forward thinking at its time but it’s not a book that, in my view, aged well.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book. Not sure where all the hate is coming from for this book. People need to read more and read more books that make you think and that push the envelope (especially in today's pro-censorship world). CHALLENGE YOUR MIND! I say read a book that puts down marriage, gives praise to affairs and divorce. If a couple isn't happy with each other, why bother staying together? Not saying everyone divorce, but I am saying divorce is a concept I approve of if necessary. Remind yourself that Lawrence had a free mind, like other liberal authors from the 20s and 60s. This book also as more balls then most books written today. There is a reason I read more classics and not so much modern day books.
    • 3/5
      This is one of those books that it think its reputation is greater than its actual literary worth. Which is to say, I can find better written sex scenes in other novels and better written books about about the "death" of the man by industrialization.On whole, its not necessarily bad, just full of long winded speeches on what it means to be a man, what it means to be a women, and why sex is good. I found the characters to be unlikable, from Connie who only falls in love with a man based on his perceived "manliness", that is, good sex with an opinion why he is a man, and everyone else is not. Regarding the man Connie has an affair with, Mellors, I found him to be abusive and condescending. The other part to this is industrialization turning men into automata that only lives to work, and works to live. I understand why its in this book, but it wasn't well integrated into the story. At times, the story really did grab my attention, but than it went onto some meandering lecture that went on for a few pages. I also appreciate the ending of the story, with everyone staying respectable, and gossip at a minimum.On the whole, I'm glad to have read the book. But it won't be one I will be revisiting.
    • 5/5
      First thing out of Jyg's mouth when she saw the book on my study floor was, "You're reading a love story?" They way she said it made it seem like I went to the local Wal-Mart and picked up Harlequin. I shook my head and replied, "No, I'm reading D.H. Lawrence." If you're a fan of the Harlequin mumbo-jumbo, you'll probably like the book, however. Although, the difference between this book and the generic romance novel is the poetry and the purpose the book contains. Because I dislike spoilers, I won't go into the whole plot and my favorite parts; however, I will tell you what I took/learned from the novel.

      Love means the ability to love a woman who shits and pisses. I kid you not. I just paraphrased a line in the book. Granted the novel isn't for everyone - feminists beware, not all of you will like it - but it should be given a chance. As I was skipping along through several different reviews and whatnot on blogs, Amazon and here, I noticed there are mixed feelings for it. One of them being that men cannot write women. I beg to disagree. Some men can't write women, others can.

      I'm not going to say something as bold as D.H. Lawrence pegged women correctly or that he new the nature of women, but surely he had a clue on the type of woman his main character was. That's as far as I will go to defend that.

      As for the greatest piece of literature, well, that's arguable. The book is great and it should be read by anyone who is a student of literature (no exceptions in this cluster, by the way) and should be given a chance by others. Also, don't be fooled into thinking the book is a simple love story that has no underlining meaning. Because I don't like going into the full details of all the hidden messages (which aren't so hidden, by the way) of the novel (because I did that for school so I'm not going to do that leisure), I will admit at first I thought the purpose of the novel was that of betrayal. After a while, I realized it was a little more on the side of social liberation.

      The downfall for me was the end. It didn't pan out the way I wanted it to. While we are led to cheer for the infidelity, I was still hoping for the ending that I was beginning to see as inevitable. I suppose I just don't like happy endings, no matter the degree.
    • 5/5
      This is a classic that I love.
    • 4/5
      This was one of those novels I'd always meant to get around to, but never had.

      Is it scandalous? Well, I can see how it would have been a hundred years ago, but now, in the age of television shows that show as much sex as 60s porn did, and an internet fueled mostly on porn? Not so much.

      But it is beautifully written, and a lovely thing to read.
    • 4/5
      You know a book is trouble when it's published privately in Italy in 1928 and again in France a year later. It wasn't published openly to the masses until 1960 when it was promptly banned across the world. The United States, Canada, Australia, India, and Japan all found fault with it. Finally, when it was at the center of a 1960 British obscenity trial, things came to a head. Who doesn't know this story? Lady Chatterley is an attractive upper-class woman married to an equally handsome man who happens to be paralyzed from the waist down. Connie is young, spoiled, and has certain...needs. Her husband says he understands, but a man and wife's varying perceptions of the same marriage are striking. Clifford Chatterley doesn't really understand the resentments of his wife. A poignant scene is when Connie watches a mother hen protect her eggs and feels empty. She wants a child. She wants a lover. She finds solace in the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors, who lives on the grounds. His cottage is a short distance from the estate...It is the classic tale of class differences. Lawrence goes a bit further by exploring themes of industrialism (Clifford wants to modernize mining with new technology) and mind-body psychology (the struggle between the heart and mind when it involves sexuality, especially when it is illicit in nature). The ending is ambiguous, as typical of Lawrence's work, but it ends with hope.
    • 1/5
      Adult fiction; social commentary. DH's repetitive ramblings get awfully tiresome.
    • 3/5
      This was a tough call for me. On the one hand, Lawrence does well to acknowledge that female sexuality and pleasure *exists.* On the other hand, the depiction of female sexuality is so...Freudian. So male-focused still. I don't know if I'd teach this book or not. I'm definitely glad to have read it, but I'm not sure this is going to remain on my shelves.
    • 4/5
      An indispensable stepping stone in our cultural reformulation of the sexual relationship, if a little limited for its male perspective.
    • 3/5
      Read this way back in 2010. It is a story of an illicit love affair. This book was censored for many years and was first published in Italy and not England and was a subject of an obscenity trial. The affair is between Lady Chatterley and a working man (games keeper) which is one of the themes; unfair rule of intellects over working class. Lady Chatterley discovers she must love with her body as well as her mind. Love and personal relationships are the threads of the novel. A variety of relationships are explored including; bullying and perverse maternal.Themes:mind/bodyclass industrialization/nature
    • 3/5
      The story of Connie, who is Lady Chatterley, her husband, Clifford, Lord Chatterley, and Connie's lover, Oliver Mellors, the keeper on Lord Chatterley's estate. For sure, there are scenes of passion, and there are many risqué metaphors, for which the book is popularly known. However, it is set at a time when the Industrial Revolution was fueling the British economy. And much of the story involves the clash of the English aristocracy with the working class, as the importance of the mines was diminishing and the fortunes of the lords who run them was dwindling. Things were changing and both the aristocracy and the working classes were concerned about their livelihood.

      Overall, while it is a fairly interesting story, I found the writing tedious and somewhat repetitive.
    • 5/5
      I've loved modernist fiction for a long time, but I've had a love-hate relationship with D.H. Lawrence for about as long. Lady Chatterley's lover is the best Lawrence I've ever read. Yes, you can still find what I think of as his bad habits there: his tendency to describe everything using opposites, his obsession with vitality which often seems, as someone else put it, "a sick man's dream of health," his obvious disdain for many of his characters and their choices. But all of these tendencies are reined in here: even his tendency toward repetition comes off as lyrical rather than merely trying. I can enthusiastically recommend it to people who don't much like D.H. Lawrence. What's most delightful about "Lady Chatterley" is that, considering a book that's supposedly about an intense, erotic affair between two people, it's surprisingly wide-ranging. One of the things that makes this book work is, oddly enough, is how carefully Lawrence crafts its temporal and physical setting. Beyond Constance and Oliver's relationship, we get a clear-eyed description of the generalized despair that followed the end of the First World War, a pitiless description of the British artistic scene, a careful transcription of the Derby dialect, and a look destructive effects of the coal industry on Lawrence's beloved British countryside that's simultaneously regretful and buzzing with dark energy. His descriptions of both the main characters' erotic adventures and the lush woods that they have them in are truly beautiful, there are passages where everything in the book seems to pulse with sensuality and life. For all his opinions about the state in which he found the world, I can't think of too many writers who were more interested in writing the body than Lawrence was. This novel might owe its notoriety to its four-letter words and its explicitness, but it also communicates the physicality of both sex and mere being exceptionally well. The paralyzed Clifford is sort of given short shrift here -- one imagines that he's got a body, too, though Lawrence depicts him as largely inert. Also, even while he praises the joy of sexual congress, Lawrence seems to have a lot of ideas about exactly how men and women should and shouldn't have sex. In the final analysis, though, seeing as it was produced by a writer who sometimes comes off as bitter and spiteful about the modern world, "Lady Chatterley" seems like a surprisingly optimistic argument for romantic and physical love. This may be especially true of its lovely final pages, where Constance and Oliver plan out a future that emphasizes the rhythms of nature, their love, and their truest selves. A difficult book from a difficult writer, but certainly worth the effort.
    • 3/5
      Lady Chatterley's Lover🍒🍒🍒
      By DH Lawrence
      1928

      Constance Chatterley is trapped in an unfulfilling marriage to a rich aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent. After a brief sexual affair, she becomes involved with the gamekeeper on the family estate. Oliver Mellors, the composite opposite of her husband, is unfulfilled as well by his wife Bertha, whose method of punishment is to withhold any intimacy. Their relationship develops as Constance begins to use Olivers shed as a sort of retreat. The curiosity and eventual lust grow and develop and soon they are intimately involved. First as a need, then a desire. This is the story of their intimate and beautiful relationship, and an example of this books premise: individual rejuvenation through love and personal relationships.
      This book brought to mind, for me anyway, how we define love. What it is...what is means....how it's shared. What is the meaning of adultery...is it more than sex?
      Masterful....intense.....a classic.....
    • 3/5
       This one was alright. I don't think there's a ton that's memorable aside from it being considered 'racy,' but it's DH Lawrence, so. It's not one that I'll likely reread again.
    • 4/5
      At the start I thought, I'm not going to finish this, as I found the story quite slow moving. I'm glad I persevered, and although by today's standards it wouldn't be on a Banned Books List, I can see why it was at the time of publication. This is my first experience of D.H. Lawrence and his writing style slowly grew on me, so much so that by the end I had settled into and enjoyed the slow pace, the characters and the look back at his time and place. It's very well written and I could easily sympathise with all the characters, and appreciate the way they each found themselves trapped.
    • 4/5
      I am pleased to have read The First Lady Chatterley before reading this third draft of the same novel. The first draft, despite a similar plot, had a completely different feel to it. The emergence of socialism has little importance in Lady Chatterley's Lover, almost as if Lawrence tried to wrench away from political commentary and social change so he could nestle the third draft safely back into its own class. Despite the obviously more vulgar language used in this draft, and the notorious details that led to it being banned for decades, I think this more famous draft suffers if it is not read in the context of the first. Rather than predict the rise of nationalisation and social democracy in Britain, Lawrence's character Mellor (formerly Parkin), instead appears to presage the Great Depression. I can only guess as to the differences in the second draft, but I am curious enough to track it down and find out. As for this novel's notoriety, readers today will be well desensitised to the parts that caused a scandal in the past. I can only imagine Lawrence's shock if he were to experience what is now so passé in our own time. With three D.H. Lawrence novels now under my belt, I will venture to read the rest.
    • 2/5
      My daughter wanted to read it -- and so I thought I should finally get around to reading it myself first, if only to be able to give her a reasonable heads' up as to the level of sex scene she was getting into.
      After the hype, and the banning, etc., I figured I might be reading a Fanny Hill sort of book. As it turns out, I was not. It was an interesting discussion on class, and women's roles etc. spiced up with a few not very titillating sex scenes.
    • 4/5
      I am shocked that I enjoyed this. My father - a non-reader - always held DH Lawrence as his standard for unreadable books. While I certainly love reading more than him, I tend to agree with his assessments to a less passionate degree (writes he says aren't half bad, I love, writers he's dislikes, I enjoy, writers he hates, I dislike, etc.). I really liked this though. It felt so oddly anachronistic - like a modern author *trying* to write a regency-era romance - it created a pleasantly jarring experience. I was so confused the first few scenes - I couldn't fathom when this book took place or was written. I was shocked to find it was in the early days of the Depression.
    • 5/5
      Misogyny abound. Regardless, it's quite hilarious. The first time I read this all I remembered was sex and chickens. This time around I picked up on much more. The narration by John Lee was perfect.