Burning Man

The Trials of D.H. Lawrence

De: Frances Wilson

Narrado por: Esther Wane

"Never trust the teller," wrote D. H. Lawrence, "trust the tale."

Everyone who knew him told stories about Lawrence, and Lawrence told stories about everyone he knew. He also told stories about himself, again and again: a pioneer of autofiction, no writer before Lawrence had made so permeable the border between life and literature. In Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence, acclaimed biographer Frances Wilson tells a new story about the author, focusing on his decade of superhuman writing and travel between 1915, when The Rainbow was suppressed following an obscenity trial, and 1925, when he was diagnosed with tuberculosis.

Eschewing the confines of traditional biography, Burning Man offers a triptych of lesser-known episodes drawn from lesser-known sources, including tales of Lawrence as told by his friends in letters, memoirs, and diaries. Focusing on three turning points in Lawrence's pilgrimage and three central adversaries - his wife, Frieda; the writer Maurice Magnus; and his patron, Mabel Dodge Luhan - Wilson uncovers a lesser-known Lawrence, both as a writer and as a man.

Strikingly original, superbly researched, and always revelatory, Burning Man is a marvel of iconoclastic biography. With flair and focus, Wilson unleashes a distinct perspective on one of history's most beloved and infamous writers.

©2021 Frances Wilson (P)2021 Tantor

Fabulous

This book focuses on the relationships and geographical landscapes that influenced D.H. Lawrence. You wont be bored, and the narrator is just perfect.

Depressing

This biography is depressing. I haven’t listened to all of it, I had to quit it. I’m disillusioned with DH Lawrence as a person after reading this. Didn’t know what a mess he was. But then he died young. He suffered with his physical health for a long time, which seems to have impacted his mental health. As for his novels, Sons and Lovers is great, the Rainbow not so great, stylistically, but worth a read as a prequel to Women in Love, in which Lawrence seems to have matured as a writer. I read Lady Chatterly’s Lover years ago, not sure I want to re read it. I recall the novel as being mostly about sex, which was more interesting when I younger. I plan to read the White Peacock next.