《儿子与情人》是一本被看作为劳伦斯自传式的小说,主人公保罗如同少年的劳伦斯一样出生于英国的矿工家庭,有一位粗犷酗酒的父亲和一位占有欲极强的母亲。背景是英国乡村田园牧歌式的自然美景,和与之对立的黑暗、肮脏,象征着财富、文明与现代的工业矿井。小说中没有恢宏的场景与复杂的故事情节,有的是劳伦斯式的心理描写,夹杂着父母的仇怨、少年的情欲与一些蛛丝马脚的恋母情结。 Sons and Lovers, a biographies of Lawrence’s autobiography, the protagonist Paul was born in England as a teenager Lawrence with a miner’s family, a brutally drunken father and a possessive mother. The backdrop is a rural idyllic natural beauty in the English countryside, opposite the dark, dirty, industrial mines symbolizing wealth, civilization and modernity. There are no grand scenes and complicated storylines in the novel, but some are Lawrence-style psychological descriptions, mixed with their parents’ resentment, juvenile passions and some clumsy oedipus complex.