D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study

by Anaïs Nin

Book Overview

In 1932, two years after D. H. Lawrence's death, a young woman wrote a book about him and presented it to a Paris publisher. She recorded the event in her diary: "It will not be published and out by tomorrow, which is what a writer would like when the book is hot out of the oven, when it is alive within oneself. He gave it to his assistant to revise." The woman was Ana s Nin.

Nin examined Lawrence's poetry, novels, essays, and travel writing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804000670
• ISBN13: 9780804000673
• Release Date: January 1964
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

A. Nin

I bought this book for a friend. Thus I cannot review it. I never read the book.

elegy to a young womans hero

D.H. Lawrence was obviously an enormous influence on Nin. One can almost visualize the young Nin being titilated by Women in Love or Lady Chatterlys Lover. Lawrence, no doubt, inspired Ms Nin to take up the pen in the first place. This unprofessional study is her tribute to this great writer. It is highly subjective (as is most criticism written by writers on other writers.) Nin touches on all aspects of Lawrence writing. She also lends a much needed feminine voice to the analysis of Lawrence. She seems to intuitively respond to the characters of Lawrence. This study really hits the spot. It is essential reading for any student of Lawrence. It also lends great insight into the artistic development of Anais Nin herself. (In some ways this book is as much about Nin as it is about Lawrence.) This study contains some outstanding writing from an author often undeservedly overshadowed by Henry Miller. This book should help to cement her own literary rank as a top notch writer.