L'amante di Lady Chatterley

Scritto da D H Lawrence

Narrato da Alessandra Bedino

L’amante di Lady Chatterley è il più famoso romanzo dello scrittore inglese D.H. Lawrence. Pubblicato nel 1928, fu immediatamente messo all’indice perché il suo contenuto era ritenuto osceno e oltraggioso per la morale pubblica. Il romanzo racconta infatti la storia d’amore e di passione tra l’aristocratica Lady Chatterley, moglie di un uomo reso invalido e impotente dalle ferite riportate in guerra, e il guardacaccia Mellors, uomo virile e forte, ma non rude. Una storia d’amore adultero, quindi, ma non solo: una storia tra persone provenienti da mondi e realtà differenti e antitetiche, che si incontrano nel campo tutt’altro che neutrale e semplice del sesso. E sullo sfondo, l’Inghilterra industrializzata, privata di ogni naturalezza a vantaggio del progresso e incapace di conciliare la mentalità chiusa e conservatrice di stampo vittoriano con l’apparente ed esasperata libertà della modernità, o di avvicinare l’upper class al proletariato industriale. Gli elementi perché il romanzo destasse scandalo, quindi, erano tutti presenti. Ma in ‘L’amante di Lady Chatterley’ c’è molto di più: c’è una donna giovane e intelligente che sente di dover cercare qualcosa di diverso dalla realtà (comoda ma terribilmente fredda) che vive con il marito, e che sceglie di intraprendere questa ricerca utilizzando lo strumento più istintivo ed emotivo che possiede. Non una ricerca del piacere come fine a se stesso, come oggetto di consumo, ma come terreno d’incontro con la propria autenticità e con quella dell’uomo che ha con sé, e in sé, in una cornice erotica di tenerezza e passione. Il più intimo dei contrasti è il prodotto e il paradigma del contrasto che separa una civiltà dai suoi aspetti più veri e naturali. Il romanzo ha il merito di aver anticipato temi come il ruolo dell’uomo e della donna, della coppia e del matrimonio, della liberazione sessuale, che sarebbero divenuti di grande attualità negli anni Sessanta e Settanta, e che ancora oggi sono dei nodi culturali irrisolti. In un mondo ancora sospeso tra bigottismo e pornografia, ‘L’amante di Lady Chatterley’ risalta in tutta la sua contemporaneità. La lettura è affidata da il Narratore audiolibri alla superba e intensa interpretazione dell’attrice Alessandra Bedino.



Contenuto: L’amante di Lady Chatterley  (Versione integrale) (Edizione a stampa: Guaraldi Editore, Rimini, 1995, traduzione di Gian Luca Guerneri: acquista e-book / acquista libro a stampa - Registrazione ed editing effettuati presso lo studio VirtualSpeaker di Roberto Francini, Arezzo) Indice delle tracce: - 35 tracce totali per 19 capitoli (alcuni capitoli sono divisi in più tracce audio)

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• Lingua: Italiano
• Editore: il Narratore audiolibri
• Data di uscita: 18 apr 2019
• ISBN: 9788897301882

D H Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence, (185-1930) more commonly known as D.H Lawrence was a British writer and poet often surrounded by controversy. His works explored issues of sexuality, emotional health, masculinity, and reflected on the dehumanizing effects of industrialization. Lawrence’s opinions acquired him many enemies, censorship, and prosecution. Because of this, he lived the majority of his second half of life in a self-imposed exile. Despite the controversy and criticism, he posthumously was championed for his artistic integrity and moral severity.

Recensioni su L'amante di Lady Chatterley

[jessicadelellis · Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle]

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.

[dbsovereign · Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle]

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.

[wordbyword_1 · Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle]

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.

[ghost_boy-691444 · Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle]

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.

[thedivineoomba · Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle]

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.

[ennuiprayer · Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle]

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.

[omayrav-396304 · Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle]

This is a classic that I love.

[tobinelliott · Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle]

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.

[seriousgrace · Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle]

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.

[reader1009-863136 · Valutazione: 1 su 5 stelle]

Adult fiction; social commentary. DH's repetitive ramblings get awfully tiresome.

[drfuriosa · Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle]

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.

[jostie13 · Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle]

An indispensable stepping stone in our cultural reformulation of the sexual relationship, if a little limited for its male perspective.

[kristelh_15 · Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle]

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

[steller0707 · Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle]

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.

[theampersand · Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle]

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.

[over.the.edge · Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle]

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.....

[justagirlwithabook · Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle]

 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.

[fliss88_1 · Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle]

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.

[madepercy-1 · Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle]

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.

[shadowdancer_1 · Valutazione: 2 su 5 stelle]

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.

[benuathanasia · Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle]

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.

[kemilyh1988 · Valutazione: 5 su 5 stelle]

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.

[bookworm12_1 · Valutazione: 2 su 5 stelle]

Lady Constance Chatterley marries her husband shortly before World War I. He returns from the war paralyzed from the waist down. Their relationship continues to stagnant in the countryside until she has an affair with their gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. The book was considered incredibly racy it was published in 1928. The full novel wasn’t even published in England until 1960. I decided to read this because it’s one of the most banned books of all time. To me, the novel was a gross simplification of love. Physical love is part of relationships, but it’s not the only element. Lawrence seemed to think that without the physical connection there was no way that Constance and her husband Clifford could ever love each other. Her superficial connection with Oliver never rang true to me. Oliver Mellors’ character was hard to stomach. He’s racist, homophobic, selfish, and quick to lose his temper. The only thing Constance actually has in common with him is their mutual physical attraction. It’s hard to believe Lawrence’s premise that this is the most powerful relationship she can have. It would be more believable if Constance had an affair with him, began to understand the importance of the physical side of relationships and then found someone that satisfied both the physical and mental desires that she had. BOTTOM LINE: It’s a classic and I’m glad I read it, but it’s definitely not a new favorite. Lawrence writes some beautiful passages, but the characters and the plot fell short.

[laugal-2 · Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle]

A very good read and highly recommended.

[waitingtoderail · Valutazione: 2 su 5 stelle]

A more literate than average romance novel. One of the first of its kind, so important, but for this reader at least, banal and uninspiring.

[oddandbookish · Valutazione: 4 su 5 stelle]

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.

[philsyphe · Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle]

I added this over a year ago but for some reason it's recently disappeared from my "read" list!Anyway, I read this twice because one of my modules at university was about D. H. Lawrence. First read was for class, second read was for essay preparation.Found out during the module that I'm not a Lawrence fan, though of all the works of his I read, "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was the best of the bunch.

[macescamilla · Valutazione: 3 su 5 stelle]

This classic novel is more than just an outrageous accounting of one couple's sexual adventures; it's a commentary on the British class system, the role of women in this system, and yes, the unromanticized sexual appetites of the fairer sex. While some believe that Lawrence didn't understand these appetites and that his approach to Lady Chatterly was sexist, I feel that he was being sarcastic in his interpretation of events, trusting the reader to understand that he disagreed with how she was being treated. Good (and steamy!!) read. :)

[tobereadpile · Valutazione: 2 su 5 stelle]

I had such great expectations about this book, but unfortunately it left me disappointed. While i appreciate why this would have been considered a banned book, i found it incredibly tedious and superfluous. I suppose these issues aren't as relevant or taboo in today's society as they were back then, which could be why it failed to impact me. I am looking forward to the 2015 film adaptation though, cause, hey, Richard Madden.

[kell1732 · Valutazione: 1 su 5 stelle]

Now this was a slog of a book. I managed to finish it, but looking back, I should have just stopped when I realized that this book was so not worth my time. I had heard from various people whose opinions I respect and often agree with that this book needed to be on my reading list. Well, I got that out of the way.I thought the characters were dull, and I couldn't have cared less how this whole affair ended. Many a time I found myself thinking that this whole thing was just stupid. I got annoyed with Clifford and his whole, "You can go have a baby with some other guy, but I have to approve of the guy" schtick. Really? Constance, run away!While I am normally pretty good with understanding that these books are from a different time period, and that things were vastly different back then, I just could not sympathize with anyone in this book. I just wanted Constance to cut to the chase and run off with the hugely boring and uninteresting Mellors and let me get back to reading something worth my time. Maybe it's because I just don't see this situation being as scandalous today as it was then, and I know that this goes back to reading it with the knowledge of the time period, but I do expect there to be some relevancy to today that will keep me engaged in the book. I didn't see that here. Even in Tess of the d' Ubervilles there relevancy to today's society and the issue women still have fighting against a patriarchal system. While I can see Constance's situation as still being stigmatized today, (cause when isn't a woman making choices about sex not stigmatized) I couldn't help but be annoyed with her after a while for not just standing up for herself and leaving. It took forever!Maybe I would have felt more sympathetic if I had actually like Mellors, but since I really didn't care about him, and didn't understand what Constance saw in the man, I just wanted her to get on with it. I actually found him rather disrespectful and unlikable. I personally would have nothing to do with someone like Mellors, so I couldn't understand why Constance did.It was this and all the pretentious, philosophical discussions between very boring men about the meaning of sex and why they don't get what all the fuss is about. Is it just me or does this just seem a little unnatural? I also couldn't help but notice the absence of Constance's opinion on the matter (cause who wants to hear a woman talk about sex) even though she is the only one in the book who got close to figuring it all out. If that is what we would call her revelations, if we want to call them that. More like confused and muddled thoughts that never actually gained any coherency.As you can probably tell, I hated this book. I hated it so much that I tried to sell it back to Powell's, but not even Powell's would take it, thus it sits on my floor constantly reminding me of all the time wasted that could have been spent reading Junot Diaz's new book, This Is How You Lose Her (review forthcoming). If you want to read a classic, don't read this one. Unless you're into all the things I hate. In that case, go for it.