Summary
Herbert David Lawrence: Duga
Duga (The Rainbow) is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written 1915. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family, focusing in particular on sexuality and the relationships between the characters.
Lawrence's open approach to sexuality and the games within relationships as natural and spiritual drivers of life led to legal proceedings against the novel on charges of obscenity in 1915, as a result of which all copies were confiscated and burned. For the next 11 years, the novel could not be obtained in Britain, although copies were available in the USA.
1920 The Rainbow was followed by the sequel Zaljubne women (Women in love). Although Lawrence conceived the works as a single unit, intending to call it The Sisters or The Wedding Ring, at the request of the publisher, they were published as separate novels. However, after the negative publicity of Duga, the publisher gave up publishing Zaljubneh žene, so that novel was published 5 years later.
1989 a film of the same name was made adaptation of a film directed by Ken Russell who also 1969 directed Zalbjudene women. 1988 BBC published a television adaptation of the novel directed by Stuart Burge with actress Imogen Stubbs as the protagonist of the novel, Ursula Brangwen.
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