Aaron’s Rod
A miner walks out on his family at Christmas carrying a flute, and Lawrence follows him through London and Italy without a plot.
A Midlands miner abandons his family on Christmas Eve and drifts through London and Italy with his flute, in a 1922 novel that is less plotted than pursued. Lawrence puts his own restlessness on the page, and makes the case for process over anything as settled as a finished product.
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Maria Popova
D.H. Lawrence (September 11, 1885–March 2, 1930) mounts a passionate defense of the process over the product in his autobiographically tinted 1922 novel Aaron’s Rod (free ebook | public library), animated by the perennial question and perennial confusion of what love actually is.
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