[Vwoolf] "The Pursuit of Love" - trigger alert

[Ellen Moody]

Just to chime in -- I've seen the first episode of this new iteration and
found it appalling -- it's the film art I refer to.  It makes the recent
super-rapid Writ large pace (90 minute) Romeo and Juliet (Jessie Buckley
and Josh O'Connor) look slow and subtle.'
Everyone super-extravagantly costumed.  And to say there are older film
adaptations of this book -- or series by Mitford -- so it must be popular
One in 1980 and one in 2001 -- both titled Love in a Cold Climate.  I
remember the second was actually quite watchable -- with a remarkable cast.

Ellen Moody

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 4:01 PM Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <
vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> To tie in with (take advantage of?) the recent TV dramatisation – I
> haven’t seen it, but I’m against it – Penguin have reprinted this 1945
> novel:
> h
> ttps://www.penguin.co.uk/books/2555/the-pursuit-of-love/9780241991848.html
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/2555/the-pursuit-of-love/9780241991848.html__;!!KGKeukY!g-veBCGykbv6DVy4TWnyg3mfAsH-Q9X7XeQTT3L_MmIJn1FJ4xYEyNlSbS1SLVodzZ4$>
>
> Wandering around Tesco’s – quite an adventure after all these months – why
> oh why did they have to rearrange the shop in the middle of a pandemic, so
> that people couldn’t find what they were looking for, and thus spend more
> dangerous time hunting for what they wanted? – I spotted this edition.
>
> I forgot how easy it is nowadays to take a photo on the spot, so I regret
> that I didn’t take a snap of the trigger warning, along the lines of: There
> are expressions and opinions in this book that were offensive then and are
> offensive now.  It has been decided not to censor them out.  If we had done
> so, readers wouldn’t know that such expressions and opinions were ever, er,
> expressed and opinionated.
>
> I regret even more that I don’t any longer have a copy of "The Pursuit of
> Love" – not enough to buy one from Tesco’s, though.  I now feel towards it
> as people did towards “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” pre-1960, and anticipate
> frissons when I finally get to reread it.
>
> Stuart
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