{"id":3392,"date":"2026-01-01T17:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2026-01-01T17:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T01:14:14","slug":"review-lady-chatterlys-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3392","title":{"rendered":"Review: Lady Chatterly&#8217;s Lover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had read <em>Lady Chatterly<\/em> before, but I went back to it because Bukowski spoke so glowingly about D. H. Lawrence in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3383\"><em>Ham on Rye<\/em>.<\/a> I see some of what Bukowski sees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t really come to <em>Lady Chatterly<\/em> without its reputation looming.  It has both a reputation as an explicit story and as a literary work.  By modern standards, it is not terribly salacious, but Lawrence does talk frankly about sex and the people who have it.  And I think he does have meaningful insights to share, but there is a lot to say.  And I have learned to be skeptical of narratives about women&#8217;s lives written by men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope that Lawrence doesn&#8217;t believe he&#8217;s written the last word on intimate relationships, though sometimes it sounds like he might.  A lot of the book is anchored in the time and place, though I think a fair amount of his observations are fundamental.  I also think the universe of people in love is larger than he considers. All together, I find the book easy to criticize, but hard to dismiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had read Lady Chatterly before, but I went back to it because Bukowski spoke so glowingly about D. H. Lawrence in Ham on Rye. I see some of what Bukowski sees. I couldn&#8217;t really come to Lady Chatterly without its reputation looming. It has both a reputation as an explicit story and as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3393,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}