Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) wrote six novels - Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910), A Passage to India (1924). Maurice , written in 1914, was published posthumously in 1971. He also published two volumes of short stories; two collections of essays; a critical work (Aspects of the Novel); The Hill of Devi; two biographies; two books about Alexandria; and the libretto for Britten's opera Billy Budd. David Leavitt is the author of several novels and story collections, most recently The Body of Jonah Boyd (2004). With Mark Mitchell, he edited the Penguin US edition of E.M. Forster's Selected Stories, as well as The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he is Professor of English at the University of Florida.
An astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of homosexual relationships in an era when love between men was not only stigmatised, but also illegal, E.M. Forster's Maurice is edited by P.N. Furbank with an introduction by David Leavitt in Penguin Classics. Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening. A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970. Compellingly honest and beautifully written, it offers a powerful condemnation of the repressive attitudes of British society, and is at once a moving love story and an intimate tale of one man's erotic and political self-discovery. In his introduction, David Leavitt explores the significance of the novel in relation to Forster's own life and as a founding work of modern gay literature. This edition reproduces the Abinger text of the novel, and includes new notes, a chronology and further reading. E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was a noted English author and critic and a member of the Bloomsbury group. His first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread appeared in 1905. The Longest Journey appeared in 1907, followed by A Room With A View (1908), based partly on the material from extended holidays in Italy with his mother. Howards End (1910) was a story that centred on an English country house and dealt with the clash between two families, one interested in art and literature, the other only in business. Maurice was revised several times during his life, and finally published posthumously in 1971. If you enjoyed Maurice, you might like Forster's A Room With a View, also available in Penguin Classics.
看来我总是看些冷门书籍啊,每次我兴致勃勃地到豆瓣搜索出我看过的书,想看看评论,就发现自己又一次站在了社会边缘。 《莫瑞斯》这本书说是关于同性恋的,但作者的文化程度恐怕太高,将书写得带了些哲思,主题到最后升华到打破阶层对立的高度。 看的感觉跟当年看《麦田守望者...
评分我很喜欢福斯特的风格,有种非常含蓄,压抑的美感,就算他曾经写过散文分析批评过英国人这种隐忍克制的表达方式,然而他老人家身在此山中,毕竟未能免俗。相比于某些作者洋洋洒洒似乎要从书里溢出的情感,福斯特将他的真心所想用隐喻,用梦境,用象征,用伏笔安排在书的每一处...
评分同志题材的影视和文学这些年始终方兴未艾。其中很多,我都不甚喜欢。虽然不可否认这些作品或多或少为社会对原本难以启齿的话题提供些许松弛的空间,让普罗大众(或许是俯视的态度,或许是同情的态度,或许是好奇的态度)知道“哦,其实还有这么一个群体。” 《莫瑞斯》是我这...
评分这本书的英文版我很长时间以前就已经下载下来,一直在电脑里面放着。到了Harvard这边了以后,每天除了上课以外有很多时间空下来,可以自己安排任何想做的事情。恰好前几天电脑又坏掉无法立刻得到修理,所以就干脆借来了这本书,花了几个晚上读完了。 一、关于人物 废话不多说...
评分脱稿于1914年的《莫瑞斯》,被E·M·福斯特私藏了五十多年直到作者本人去世后才得以出版,他不指望依靠这本小说来功成名就,就像一场浪漫的亡命之旅,仅献给艰难与原始的爱。 《莫瑞斯》对于福斯特生前的大部分岁月来说是邪恶的,他竟然耗费一本书的长度去称颂同性之爱,这不该...
刚开始好多段落都要反复读才能明白过来,实在不懂还要看中译= = 语法不同,省略多,好多词用的偏义或者古义 总之看得很痛苦……后半段终于习惯了。已然变成作者脑残粉。博物馆那段写的行云流水细腻又不造作不能再美了。以及看完书才明白jw演得多好。
评分浪漫的,太浪漫的……也許這就是葉芝所謂的‘pilgrim soul’.
评分Clive Durham 離開Cambridge 之後就完全失去了他的charm
评分重读,还是感动。Forster写得最不克制的一本书。
评分赶在30周年修复版上映前把原著读了一遍(还真是这封面!)。百年前写成的同志小说,它超前它的时代太多。福斯特就像在讲述身外的故事,遣词造句出人意料的平实。但文字组合在一起后有种荡气回肠的力量,就像被一把楔子在头顶凿出了天光,照见五蕴皆空般的透彻。感动!
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