E. M. Forster's reputation as one of the finest writers of the twentieth century is based on an output which is both modest in size and remote in time: his last novel, A Passage to India, was published in 1924. The appearance of a complete but hitherto unpublished novel is therefor a literary event of the greatest importance.
Maurice describes the long and difficult process by a typical product of middle-class suburbia and education realizes that he is a homosexual. It culminates in an ecstatic love affair by which Maurice both fulfills his nature and, in the compelling series of episodes by which the book closes, rejects his entire inherited system of values and conduct. In this combination - of fulfillment and its inevitable concomitant, rejection - lie the author's reasons and inspiration for writing the novel. Forster wished at once to demonstrate the possibility of love outside normal experience and to expose the rigid structure and morality of a society that did not merely condemn such experience as immoral, but in a more insidious way, regarded it as unnatural.
Although its homosexual content was the reason why Forster decided that the novel, completed in 1914, should remain unpublished until his death, Maurice cannot be defined by its purpose nor by its theme. It was written by a great novelist at the height of his powers - as those who read it surely find evident.
The First Edition, published 1971 by Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. 41 Maddox Street, London W1R OAN
© 1971 The Trustees of the late E. M. Forster
Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk
Begun 1913
Finished 1914
Dedicated to a Happier Year
Introduction by P. N. Furbank
爱情的种子到底从何处产生?又是怎么样播撒进恋人的心田?收获的人又须以何种方式来收割才能获得幸福?是英国著名小说家爱•摩•福斯特用小说来触及这些问题。读过他小说的人可能不多,但是看过从他的小说改编的电影的人可能就多了,比如《看得见风景的房间》、《霍华德庄...
評分有时候真觉得有些前言、后记真不如不读,常会有坏人胃口的事情发生。最记得以前读文洁若翻译的《莫瑞斯》,书后附了萧乾的一篇文字《唉,同性恋》。说来E·M·福斯特的《莫瑞斯》是直到作者去世后才出版的,萧乾当年与福斯特私交甚好,他是早早就读了这书的手稿的。我以为既是...
評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...
評分脱稿于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...
評分"I have myself been too much involved in it, and for too long, to judge" -- Forster on Maurice
评分這幾天在讀第四遍。初版妙不可言啊。
评分"I have myself been too much involved in it, and for too long, to judge" -- Forster on Maurice
评分這幾天在讀第四遍。初版妙不可言啊。
评分好棒 宗教和對感情的理解討論很細緻 一本滿足。|看到100/240感覺差不多到一半跑去溫習電影pt2 一上來就是Anne說你是8thClive的朋友 噩耗…|書和電影從中盤附近開始有幾個關鍵地方描寫非常不一樣 Clive和Maurice背道的契機/Alec的信和之後兩人的meet&talk 接近結尾覺得兩邊的版本確實各自適閤分彆的載體 如果可以對比蘋果和橙子 我更喜歡書的版本。導演說的有理電影給瞭Alec更多的空間 不過書裏的隻言片語的Alec我也很喜歡。|有機會會再來重看 考慮買書 猶豫買哪一版…←已入。(初稿1914初版1960
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