Нежность

Sredi kholmov Sasseksa i na beregakh Sredizemnogo mori͡a D. G. Lourens (dli͡a odnikh - sovremennyĭ klassik, dli͡a drugikh - zapisnoĭ narushitelʹ spokoĭstvii͡a i apologet nepristoĭnosti) nabiraetsi͡a vpechatleniĭ dli͡a svoego poslednego romana pod rabochim nazvaniem "Nezhnostʹ", kotoryĭ stanet skandalʹno znamenit kak "Li͡ubovnik ledi Chatterli". V 1928 godu ofit͡sialʹnai͡a publikat͡sii͡a ėtoĭ knigi nevozmozhna - i smertelʹno bolʹnoĭ Lourens, otchai͡avshisʹ, chastnym pori͡adkom pechataet ee v Italii, tirazhom 1000 ėkzempli͡arov. Cherez tridt͡satʹ let obshchestvennyĭ klimat meni͡aetsi͡a, nachinai͡ut dutʹ novye vetry - i vot sperva "Grouv-press" v SShA, a zatem "Pingvin buks" v Anglii reshai͡utsi͡a opublikovatʹ polnui͡u, bez t͡senzurnykh sokrashcheniĭ, versii͡u, prekrasno ponimai͡a, chto riskui͡ut bytʹ privlechennymi k sudu; i predchuvstvii͡a ikh ne obmanuli. S zhurnalistskoĭ dotoshnostʹi͡u Ėlison Maklaud izlagaet khroniku oboikh sudebnykh prot͡sessov, imevshikh istoricheskoe znachenie dli͡a svobody slova, i s li͡ubovnym tshchaniem vypisyvaet portrety bort͡sov za ėtu svobodu. Vpervye na russkom - "gimn svobode i tvorcheskomu voobrazhenii͡u" (Madlen Miller) ot avtora, kotoromu "po plechu li͡ubye svershenii͡a" (Ėlizabet Gilbert).

Among the hills of Sussex and on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, D. G. Lawrence (for some — a modern classic, for others — a noted troublemaker and an apologist for obscenity) is gaining impressions for his latest novel under the working title "Tenderness", which will become infamously famous as "Lady Chatterley's Lover". In 1928, the official publication of this book is impossible — and the terminally ill Lawrence, desperate, privately prints it in Italy, with a circulation of 1,000 copies. Thirty years later, the public climate is changing, new winds are beginning to blow — and first Grove Press in the United States, and then Penguin Books in England, decide to publish the full, uncensored version, knowing full well that they risk being brought to court; and their premonitions were not deceived. With journalistic meticulousness, Alison MacLeod chronicles both trials that had historical significance for freedom of speech, and with loving care paints portraits of fighters for this freedom. For the first time in Russian — "Hymn to freedom and creative imagination" (Madeleine Miller) from an author who "can do anything" (Elizabeth Gilbert).