Mornings in Mexico by D. H. Lawrence (PDF)

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Mornings in Mexico is a collection of travel essays by D. H. Lawrence about Mexico where he travelled several times and was fascinated by what he observed there of the exotic people and their way of life. It displays Lawrence’s gifts as a travel writer, catching the “spirit of place” in his own vivid manner.

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⭐I read Mornings in Mexico in preparation for a workshop on authors and artists of early 20th Century. The only DH Lawrence I had read before was Aaron’s Rod, and a brief description of his sensiblities in reference to Lady Chatterly’s Lover. This book, Mornings in Mexico, is a series of short essays about his observations while living in New Mexico and Mexico in the 1920’s. His writing is simultaneously poetic and anthropologic, often detailed and consistently insightful. A reader might debate the accuracy of some of Lawrence’s assertions, but not without exploring and exposing your own beliefs. Hence, DH Lawrence shares his observations of people and circumstance in a seductive and provocative way…and, what else can we ask of an author? I am thankful to have read this book and gained a better understanding of why DH Lawrence is considered a great writer.

⭐I spend some time in Mexico. I found Lawrence’s experience narrative to be relevant even today. I particularly appreciated his descriptions of the mountains.

⭐I can’t put this down! D. H. Lawrence gets the small details just right about life in Mexico. The book is published in Germany, so please don’t mind the small typographical errors in both the Spanish and English. Lawrence lived near Lake Patzcuaro and down in Oaxaca in case you wondered. His description of a parrot imitating the dog and the dog’s owner calling the dog had me laughing so hard I thought I would hurt myself. This book was recommended by J. M. G. Le Clezio who won the Nobel Prize for Literature and also lived in Mexico.

⭐Very interesting period writing. Easy and short to read. Gives a feel of the area and point in time.

⭐This edition of the work is horrible. It looks like someone did the weirdest editing on it, weirdest publishing of it. There are whole repeated sections, misspellings, weirdly missing all the usual beginning pages that come with a published book. Get a different edition. I’m not sure I was really reading DH Lawrence’s real work.

⭐This is old classic in hard cover, Lawrence needs no introduction!

⭐The printing is very dim–barely readable. The text looks half erased. Lawrence deserves much better.

⭐Lawrence was a good traveller in these parts and he spent a lot of time carefully observing the Indians he met along the way. He was particularly interested in the ways of thought of the Indians and their religious beliefs and the ways their ideas differed from yours and mine. On simple concepts like time and distance, for example: “To an Indian, time is a vague, foggy reality. There are only three times: en la manana (morning); en la tarde (afternoon); en la noche (night). But to the white monkey (you and me) there are exact spots of time, such as five o’clock and half past three.” The Indian’s concept of God was different from ours. “With the Indians…there is strictly no god. The Indian does not consider himself as created and therefore external to God, or the creature of God. There is, in our sense of the word, no God. But all is godly. There is no great mind directing the universe. Yet the mystery of creation, the wonder and fascination of creation shimmers in every leaf and stone… There is no God looking on. The only God there is is involved all the time in the dramatic wonder and inconsistency of creation. God is immersed, as it were, in creation, not to be separated or distinguished. There can be no ideal God.” Lawrence does a wonderful job of digging into this exotic culture and explaining to us the significance of Indian rituals and dances. I particularly liked one of his statements: “The Indian is completely immersed in the wonder of his own drama.” There is also a lovely example of descriptive travel writing in “Market Day”, a chapter that makes you slow down your reading pace to savor the beautiful descriptions of small things like a bird’s flight or flowers in a doorway. I guess this is the difference between reading and information-processing, which we do so much of today.

⭐A book which captures Mexico and the Mexican way of life in 1925. There is a serene, slow flow about the people, he finds, a stillness, a dreaminess, a timelessness europeans will never reach nor understand. The Mexican lives in this quieter world. He’s in touch with the flow of life. He hears the sound of insects. Distant blue mountains conceal mysteries. There is depth in everything. And life is lived unhurriedly. They walk in step & live in peace with the life about them. Lawrence’s wonderful book on Sardinia also (similarly) gives us a snap shot of that charming place – as it was in the 1920s

⭐Having visited Mexico recently and been advised to read this book I bought it to try to understand more about the Mexican way of life. The articles themselves are very dated and show, at best, a colonialist view of “aboriginal Americans” and their quaint lifestyles. The text itself was badly typeset with partial words, letters omitted and then a whole chunk of text from pp.67-8 repeated on pp.68-70. Not worth the paper it was printed on.

⭐Quirky take on life in Mexico. By modern standards verging on racist. But insight into how an English writer say another culture at that time. The text doesn’t always follow easily. Sort of broken up over pages which makes it a bit irritating to read. Interesting enough.

⭐Review as title. Words split in the middle. Letters omitted to make whole passages incomprehensible.What’s the point of such gibberish? Don’t waste your time.

⭐If you like D. H. Lawrence or books about different countries you will enjoy this.Service and delivery excellent. Book condition very good as stated.

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