Aug 29, 2008
Divided into five parts, D. H. Lawrence's story of initiation into rites of the healing, vital process of connection with the universe begins with the doctor's command: “Take her away, into the sun.” Juliet, a middle-class young matron, leaves behind her tepid-souled husband Maurice as she travels by ocean passage with her son, a nurse, and her mother to the south, to Sicily. There, in a landscape known to ancient Greek colonists of the Italian isle, she strips off her clothes—symbolic of her former prudish conventions—to be naked in the sun. In part 1, by the...
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