The death of the author
The death of the author
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10.1136/bmj.a2717
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2008-11
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T. Dalrymple
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T. Dalrymple
改变一个人的态度需要技巧，即使是轻微的，特别是当那个人像我一样，天生固执，在生命周期中已经过了中年。但大卫·埃利斯教授，《清醒而感人的死亡》和《作者：D·H·劳伦斯是如何死去的，以及被记住的》（牛津大学出版社，2008年）的作者，使我向上修正了我对劳伦斯的看法，至少作为一个男人，如果不是作为一个作家。当然，劳伦斯死于肺结核，其他许多作家也是如此。他们中的许多人，事实上，死于这种疾病，人们倾向于假设这是一种职业危害的献身文学：证据，毫无疑问，危险的。
It takes skill to change a person’s attitude, even slightly, especially when that person is, like me, obdurate by nature and past middle age in the life cycle. But Professor David Ellis, author of the lucid and moving Death and the Author: How D H Lawrence Died, and Was Remembered (Oxford University Press, 2008), has caused me to revise upwards my opinion of Lawrence, at least as a man if not as a writer. Lawrence died from tuberculosis, of course, as did many other writers. So many of them, in fact, died from the disease that one is inclined to suppose that it was an occupational hazard of a devotion to literature: proof, no doubt, of the danger of …