On November 2, 62 years ago, the British court's trial of whether the publisher of Madame Chatterley's Lover had violated the Obscene Books Dissemination Act was concluded, and the court acquitted Penguin Publishing House on the grounds that the book had high "literary value". From then on, Madame Chatterley's Lover was allowed to be published in full without abridgement for the first time; English novelists were thus able to describe "sex" in depth and detail in their novels of literary value.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > banned books worldwide</h1>
The book "Madame Chatterley's Lover" was banned all over the world. However, after the conclusion of the watershed British public prosecution penguin press on November 2, 1960, the "Yellow Book" and the "literary sexual description" were distinguished in Western countries, and the unabridged version of the book was quickly published around the world, the United States, Australia, Canada, and so on, and the fortresses of various countries were broken one by one; subsequently, the film adaptation of the book also showed the female frontal naked body on a large scale, challenging the existence of the "little yellow film" in the name of "art".
In the 1980s and 1990s, China had just opened, and "Madame Chatelei's Lover" entered China along with jeans and Teresa Teresa. The difference is that "Madame Chatterley's Lover" can only be popular "underground" for a long time, and cannot appear in regular bookstores or movie theaters. A high-level literary and artistic seminar was held at a hotel in Shanghai that year, and the rest of the meeting was to watch the original film "Madame Chatelet's Lover". In the dark hall, nearly a hundred literary scholars and literary critics stared at the screen to enjoy the world's most avant-garde works of art. Just as the orgasm was in full swing, there was a loud scolding sound coming from the doorway. It turned out that several waiters of the hotel wanted to sneak into the lobby to share the viewing privileges, but they were forcibly blocked out, which caused a quarrel. The gatekeepers did not give in to each other, and almost fought.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > was born as a manuscript</h1>
Mrs. Chatelet's Lover is a novel published by British writer Lawrence in 1928. The book tells the story of the noble lady, Madame Chaterley, who feels bored with her husband because her husband is injured and paralyzed, and then has an extramarital affair with the gardener. The world has no problem with the book's literary nature, and the controversy lies in Lawrence's explicit description of the love between men and women, as well as the lewd words used extensively in the book. Therefore, Lawrence could not obtain the full text of the formal publication from the first day of completion of the work, and he could only privately print 2,000 copies of the "private printed version" to the "private subscribers" in Britain, the United States and France; after the publication of the second edition of the "private printed version" "200", the pirated copy also began to become popular on a large scale. Lawrence did not receive a penny of "royalties" again. It was not until 1932, two years after Lawrence's death, that an abridged version of Madame Chatelet's Lover was first published in England.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > a book triumph and the opening of a new world</h1>
In 1959, the United Kingdom passed the new "Obscene Materials Publication Act", which stipulates that if the publisher can prove that the work has literary value, then the work can not be counted as "obscene material". Penguin Press immediately published an unabridged version of Mrs. Chatelet's Lover in 1960, and the press was sued by the British judiciary.
During the trial, a large number of literary critics appeared in court as "witnesses" to express their views. On 2 November 1960, the English court issued a "not guilty" verdict, allowing the book to be published in full in the UK, thus opening up the greatest degree of freedom for writers to write explicit descriptive works in the UK.
In 1961, Penguin Publishing published a second edition of Mrs. Chatelet's Lover, with a dedication on the title page: "Penguin Press was prosecuted in London from 20 October and 2 November 1960 for publishing this book. This edition is dedicated only to the court's twelve jurors, three women and nine men, who gave the "acquittal" verdict, thus making Lawrence's last novel available to the public for the first time in Britain. ”