― anthony, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Wasn't Forster himself closeted? In a way that Gide or Sackville-West weren't. Publication of Maurice would have been an admission of something Forster seems to have felt as "guilt" -- or perhaps he just wanted to "protect" family or his reputation. There have been no shortage of reasons to stay closeted...
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― anthony, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 06:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― anthony, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 06:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ursula Osborne, Monday, 31 October 2005 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link
man, howard's end bugged the shit out of me
― thomp, Friday, 9 July 2010 09:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean, leonard bast gets killed but he got to go for a walk on the moors once, so it is alright
― thomp, Friday, 9 July 2010 10:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I suspect when I do die, it'll be in the same way as Bast. THere are a lot of overstacked shelves round here...
― The great big red thing, for those who like a surprise (James Morrison), Sunday, 11 July 2010 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I need to marry a male Margaret Schlegel.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 July 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Has anyone read "Maurice"? How is it?
― orchestral manure in the dark (corey), Sunday, 11 July 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Terrible -- a fantasy written by a novelist who should have known better. Which doesn't means you shouldn't read it.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 July 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i have a copy but i'm going to attempt 'a passage to india' and possibly 'the eternal moment' first
― thomp, Sunday, 11 July 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
His homosexual stories, collected in The Life to Come, are much better than Maurice (I felt so sinful reading them before I came out).
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 11 July 2010 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I loved Room With a View and Passage is a masterpiece. I'll skip Maurice and get Howard's End next.
― orchestral manure in the dark (corey), Sunday, 11 July 2010 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think I've ever read a novel by him but I love the stories in The Celestial Omnibus.
― o sh!t a ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ (ENBB), Monday, 12 July 2010 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
His other stories are pretty ace, too, including SF classic 'The Machine Stops'.
― The great big red thing, for those who like a surprise (James Morrison), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
'eternal moment' appears to be a collection of these, with introduction on how he is "unlikely to attempt anything further along this line"
― thomp, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Rereading The Longest Journey sounds like a good idea.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 August 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
https://newrepublic.com/article/163578/em-forster-afterlives-maurice-alec
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link
I read the Galgut novel (solid) in May after rereading Maurice, which seemed more moving and also sillier than my college experience w/it. I did note how Forster does not make Maurice a paragon of sensitivity: he grows up to be Charles Wilcox, a theory helped by James Wilby playing both characters
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link
And the triad he enjoyed with Buckingham and his wife was impressively ahead of its time.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 September 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
i think there is something in the closed, anal, tight, furled dryness of it
― anthony, Tuesday, October 11, 2005
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 December 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link