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The Plumed Serpent is a 1926 political novel by D. H. Lawrence; Lawrence conceived the idea for the novel while visiting Mexico in 1923, and its themes reflect his experiences there. The novel was first published by Martin Secker 's firm in the United Kingdom and Alfred A. Knopf in the United States; an early draft was published as ...
- 445 (Vintage international edition)
- D. H. Lawrence
- 1926
- Martin Secker
In this novel Lawrence maintains that the regeneration of Europe’s crumbling postwar society must come from a religious root, and if Christianity is dead, each region must return to its own indigenous religious tradition. The Plumed Serpent’s prophet-hero, a Mexican general,…
The Plumed Serpent. D.H. Lawrence. 3.29. 1,677 ratings169 reviews. From one of the greatest—and most controversial—writers of the 20th century comes a mesmerizing work of political imagination about a European woman's self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico.
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Quetzalcoatl is the Plumed Serpent, so hideous in the fanged, feathered, writhing stone of the National Museum. But Quetzalcoatl was, she vaguely remembered, a sort of fair-faced bearded god; the wind, the breath of life, the eyes that see and are unseen, like the stars by day.
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About The Plumed Serpent. From one of the greatest—and most controversial—writers of the 20th century comes a mesmerizing work of political imagination about a European woman’s self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico.
The Plumed Serpent is set in Mexico in the 1920s, an era of political turmoil, and centres on a revolutionary movement to revive the religion of the ancient Aztecs. The brilliant vision of place, the violent action and the rituals and myth for the new religion all combine to make it one of Lawrence's most vivid novels.
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