Ruin of the narrative body in D. H. Lawrence’s late work
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D. H. Lawrence, dialectic of the novel, British modernismAbstract
D.H. Lawrence died in 1930 of tuberculosis. Writer of bodies embedded into the cycle of creation and destruction of nature — a cycle whose reification is the epitome of industrialized society — in his slow and feverish march towards death, Lawrence drafts a metaphysics of ruin. This paper reflects on two essays, a novel and a poem of his, conceived as texts in which the ruin of the novel, more than a theme, is the reason for the narrative’s impossibility in being constituted as totalizing experience and writing. The analysis is permeated by Theodor W. Adorno in the dialectic of the novel, and in the tension between culture and death.
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