The Bad Side of Books

Resumen del libro

You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet; he was an essayist of burning curiosity, expansive lyricism, odd humor, and radical intelligence, equaled, perhaps, only by Virginia Woolf. Here Geoff Dyer, one of the finest essayists of our day, draws on the whole range of Lawrence's published essays to reintroduce him to a new generation of readers for whom the essay has become an important genre. We get Lawrence the book reviewer, writing about Death in Venice and welcoming Ernest Hemingway; Lawrence the travel writer, in Mexico and New Mexico and Italy; Lawrence the memoirist, depicting his strange sometime-friend Maurice Magnus; Lawrence the restless inquirer into the possibilities of the novel, writing about the novel and morality and addressing the question of why the novel matters; and, finally, the Lawrence who meditates on birdsong or the death of a porcupine in the Rocky Mountains. Dyer's selection of Lawrence's essays is a wonderful introduction to a fundamental, dazzling writer.

Biografía del autor

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930). Escritor inglés, autor de novelas, cuentos, poemas, obras de teatro, ensayos, libros de viaje y crítica literaria. Junto con Frieda Freiin von Richthofen, la mujer con quien vivió prácticamente toda su vida, viajó a Alemania, Austria e Italia, y, tras un corto periodo de vuelta a Inglaterra, inició una especie de peregrinaje por Australia, Italia de nuevo, la antigua Ceilán, Estados Unidos y México, siempre en busca del lugar ideal, hasta que, tuberculoso, terminó sus días en el sur de Francia.