From an illness that put him on the brink of death in 1925 , D. H. Lawrence rekindled his interest in a subject that was already present in his earlier work : the resurrection of the flesh. The man who died , published in 1929 under the title of the rooster who fled , is a poignant story that challenges the figure of Christ in the Gospels and the role of his mission on earth , and where better pagan religiosity seen author.

This edition also includes Resurrection and The Risen Lord , two contemporary escirtos dealing with the same subject from the presperctiva the short essay .