Risonanze nietzschiane nella scrittura di D. H. Lawrence: ipotesi per un confronto

The diffusion of Friedrich Nietzsche’s works in Great Britain covers the period between the last decade of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. It takes place later than in other European countries, above all France, where the philosopher’s ideas spread more rapidly. The most recent studies which document Nietzsche’s presence in British culture are traced back to the 70’s, David S. Thatcher’s Nietzsche in England 1890-1914. The Growth of a Reputation (1970) and Patrick Bridgwater’s 5 Nietzsche in Anglosaxony (1972), since it is in those years that the matter of Nietzscheanism begins to occupy a relevant place in literal criticism. Among the writers which are mentioned by the two scholars there is also David Herbert Lawrence, although it is about ten years later, with the publication of Colin Milton’s D. H. Lawrence: A Study in Influence (1989), that a work entirely dedicated to the relationship between the two writers firstly appears. Many critics have expressed different opinions around this subject. Some of them think that the similarities with the nietzschean thought which can be seen in Lawrence’s works are due to a mere literary vogue, while others believe that they originate by the fact that the two intellectuals share the same ideas and values. My argument starts from the second hypothesis and my central aim is to analyse some of the lawrencean works with a particular emphasis on those themes that reveal a possible influence of Nietzsche’s philosophy. .. [edited by Author]