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Set in Mexico in the 1920s, an era of political turmoil, Kate Leslie, an Irish widow flees from Europe in search of a new life. She is drawn into a revolutionary movement and through the cult of Quetzalcoatl - the plumed serpent - is opened to the dark consciousness within herself.
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The Plumed Serpent, one of Lawrence's most vivid novels, is set in Mexico in the 1920s and centres on the religion of the ancient Aztecs. The Cambridge edition establishes for the first time a meticulously edited text based on the manuscript, typescript and proof material, nearly all of which survives.
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In setting and theme, "The Plumed Serpent" is unique among Lawrence's novels. He spoke of it as his "real novel of America", a book he had wished all his life to write - by which he must have at least meant that the desire dated from the time of World War I, when he first conceived of America as a refuge from Europe and began his first intense study of early American literature. The "America" of the novel is Mexico in the 1920s, an era of political turmoil. The heroine, Kate Leslie, goes there from Europe in quest of a new life and is drawn into a revolutionary movement to revive the religion of the ancient Aztecs. The leaders who bring this movement to triumph become the chief god and the war god of the Aztecs, and Kate is deified as the primary goddess of the new pantheon. This edition is based on the manuscript, typescript and proof material, nearly all of which survives. The changes incorporated are many, from restoration of Lawrence's characteristic punctuation to sentences and paragraphs omitted in transmission of the text and overlooked in Lawrence's sometimes hasty proofreading.
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- PublisherGrafton
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0246116595
- ISBN 13 9780246116598
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages448
- EditorClark L. D.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Tight, clean and unmarked-" The story of a European woman's self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico. Lawrence's mesmerizing and unsettling 1926 novel is his great work of the political imagination.- Kate, an Irish woman visiting Mexico, is in a continuous state of war with herself: whether to maintain her independence from men in the modern, European society to which she was familiar or to submerge her very soul to Cipriano, a Native American general bent upon revolution in Mexico. Cipriano would call it "uniting" their souls. Kate, having a gentle, womanly spirit, views Mexicans as "dark men" steeped in violence, revolution and death. She is sickened by this attitude--as she was by the bull fight presented early in the book--having lost a husband who was dedicated to fighting for Ireland's freedom from Britain. In fact, _The Plumed Serpent_ concerns the battle of women against men and the ambivalent feelings (including sexual) of one for the other. Kate is equally attracted to and repelled by the Mexican culture. Dona Carlota, the wife of Ramon who is a close friend of Cipriano, like Kate is an opponent of Ramon's revolutionary fervor. Both Ramon and Cipriano yearn to replace "the Gringo" Jesus Christ's hold on the Church with the Aztec God Quetzalcoatl. There is a harrowing and incendiary scene in the book concerning just this issue."-IRA Ross. Seller Inventory # 017777
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