Word: orliac
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Venice was home to him. His art is a somewhat overblown flowering of the great tradition of Venetian painting -a tradition which Giovanni Bellini, the teacher of Titian and Giorgione, founded. For the chill, narrow intensity of earlier Venetian art, these men substituted warmth, breadth and grace. Critic Antoine Orliac once summed up Veronese in a scholarly line: "He is the expression of hieratic constraint relaxing into luminous activity...
LADY CHATTERLEY'S SECOND HUSBAND -Jehanne d'Orliac-McBride...
...Lawrentian plot: how Lady Constance Chatterley, full-blooded young wife to a paralytic peer, sought fulfillment elsewhere and found it with Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper. Author Lawrence, no champion of neat endings, left his lovers looking forward to the beginning of their life together. Author d'Orliac takes up the tale where Lawrence dropped it, reshuffles the cards and, by slipping a Gallic joker into the pack, makes the game come out exactly as she wants it. An implicit criticism of Lawrence's visceral philosophy, Lady Chatterley's Second Husband is no jest...
Author d'Orliac's thesis: even passion has its postscript. Mellors and Lady Chatterley, after the birth of their child, leave England and settle in the French countryside, where they live for a time in idyllic poverty. Eventually Lady Chatterley's husband agrees to give her a divorce, but Mellors' hell-cat wife will not do likewise. In fact, she pursues him abroad, upbraids and bedevils him until he shoots her. Exit Mellors. Lady Chatterley and her child take refuge with Sylvius, a supersensible Frenchman, half philosopher, half farmer. Lady Chatterley is tired of the passionate...
| 1 |