Sons and Lovers

Sons and Lovers (Hijos y Amantes) es una novela de D. H. Lawrence, publicada en 1913 por Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd. Inicialmente Sons and Lovers recibió una recepción más bien crítica, junto a alegaciones de obscenidad, aunque hoy se la considera una obra de arte.

En vocabulario encontramos pinks, dormir, collier, y scrubby.

 

Lawrence

Párrafos

... The Bottoms consisted of six blocks of miners' dwellings, two rows of three, like the dots on a blank-six domino, and twelve houses in a block. This double row of dwellings sat at the foot of the rather sharp slope from Bestwood, and looked out, from the attic windows at least, on the slow climb of the valley towards Selby.

The houses themselves were substantial and very decent. One could walk all round, seeing little front gardens with auriculas and saxifrage in the shadow of the bottom block, sweet-williams and pinks in the sunny top block; seeing neat front windows, little porches, little privet hedges, and dormer windows for the attics. But that was outside; that was the view on to the uninhabited parlours of all the colliers' wives. The dwelling-room, the kitchen, was at the back of the house, facing inward between the blocks, looking at a scrubby back garden, and then at the ash-pits. And between the rows, between the long lines of ash-pits, went the alley, where the children played and the women gossiped and the men smoked. So, the actual conditions of living in the Bottoms, that was so well built and that looked so nice, were quite unsavoury because people must live in the kitchen, and the kitchens opened on to that nasty alley of ash-pits.

Mrs. Morel was not anxious to move into the Bottoms, which was already twelve years old and on the downward path, when she descended to it from Bestwood. But it was the best she could do. Moreover, she had an end house in one of the top blocks, and thus had only one neighbour; on the other side an extra strip of garden. And, having an end house, she enjoyed a kind of aristocracy among the other women of the "between" houses, because her rent was five shillings and sixpence instead of five shillings a week. But this superiority in station was not much consolation to Mrs. Morel.

She was thirty-one years old, and had been married eight years. A rather small woman, of delicate mould but resolute bearing, she shrank a little from the first contact with the Bottoms women. She came down in the July, and in the September expected her third baby.

Her husband was a miner. They had only been in their new home three weeks when the wakes, or fair, began. Morel, she knew, was sure to make a holiday of it. He went off early on the Monday morning, the day of the fair. The two children were highly excited. William, a boy of seven, fled off immediately after breakfast, to prowl round the wakes ground, leaving Annie, who was only five, to whine all morning to go also. Mrs. Morel did her work… (Párrafos de Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence, Capítulo 1)

Vocabulary

pinks: claveles

dormer: buhardilla

collier: coal miner

scrubby: messy

El autor

David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885 –1930) fue un novelista, poeta, ensayista, crítico literario y pintor ingles que publicó como D. H. Lawrence. Sus trabajos representan una reflexión sobre los efectos de la modernidad e industrialización. Algunos de los temas que explora son la salud emocional, la vitalidad, la espontaneidad y el instinto.

Sus opiniones le ganaron muchos enemigos y la segunda parte de su vida la pasó en exilio voluntario. En la época de su muerte tenía reputación de pornógrafo que había malgastado sus considerables talentos. E. M. Forster, desafiando este punto de vista, dijo de él: “fue el novelista de más grande imaginación de nuestra generación.”

De la web

Para leer Sons and Lovers en inglés. The Project Gutenberg

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