D. H. Lawrence

Etruscan Places

A Reflective Journey Through Ancient Italy's Tombs, Ruins, and Pre-Roman Civilizations. Sprachen: Englisch. 22,9 cm / 15,2 cm / 0,5 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Softcover), 72 Seiten
EAN 9788027380312
Veröffentlicht Mai 2023
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D. H. Lawrence's Etruscan Places is a luminous work of travel writing and cultural meditation, drawn from his visits to the tombs and ruined cities of ancient Etruria. Moving through Cerveteri, Tarquinia, Vulci, and Volterra, Lawrence reads frescoes, sarcophagi, and landscapes as evidence of a civilization more sensuous, communal, and life-affirming than imperial Rome. Its prose is intensely visual, lyrical, and argumentative, placing archaeological observation within modernist primitivism and Lawrence's lifelong critique of mechanized, repressive modernity. Lawrence, best known for Sons and Lovers, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover, wrote from a position of exile, illness, and restless travel. By the late 1920s, tuberculosis had sharpened his awareness of mortality, while his years in Italy deepened his hostility to industrial civilization and authoritarian culture. The Etruscans offered him not merely a historical subject but an imaginative counter-world: intimate with death, yet devoted to bodily vitality, color, ritual, and ease. This book is recommended to readers of modernist prose, classical reception, and reflective travel literature. It is not a conventional guidebook, but a passionate encounter with antiquity that challenges how civilizations are judged and remembered.

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