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Sinossi
Alla sua morte, nel 1970, Edward Morgan Forster lasciò nel King's College di Cambridge una moltitudine di opere inedite: romanzi, tra cui il celebre "Maurice", testi teatrali, poesie, saggi, e numerosi racconti. Da quel materiale è nata questa raccolta, pubblicata nel 1972, che copre l'arco di tempo dai primissimi anni del Novecento al 1962 circa. Storie che l'autore non volle pubblicare - a eccezione di due - per i temi esplicitamente omosessuali, e che spaziano da narrazioni più leggere e divertite ad altre più cupe e riflessive. Con la sua scrittura di rarefatta, limpida classicità, Forster esplora l'affascinante terra incognita che si stende oltre i limiti e le restrizioni della moralità comune.
- ISBN: 8804764430
- Casa Editrice: Mondadori
- Pagine: 312
- Data di uscita: 28-03-2023
Recensioni
This novella forms part of a collection of short stories called The Life to Come , by the Edwardian writer E.M. Forster. For my review of the collection, link here . What follows is a review of the novella. The Other Boat is the longest story in the collection. It was completed in 1958, when Forster wa Leggi tutto
Most of these pieces were not published in Forster's lifetime; some of them, along with the novel Maurice , were considered unpublishable because of the homosexual content. The gay content is very understated by today's standards and therefore achieves the appearance of great restraint. Yet in a docu Leggi tutto
We've found each other, nothing else matters, it's a chance in a million we've found each other. These same words were exchanged between Maurice and Alec , and reflect how completely isolated people must have felt, how slim the hope of finding a like-minded companion. "Dr Woolacott" is a complicated sh Leggi tutto
When English novelist E. M. Forster died in 1970 at the age of 91 he left behind a large amount of unpublished materials. The reasons for this are simple: either they were not deemed of sufficient quality or they contained sexual content that he felt could not be published during his lifetime. The m Leggi tutto
Just about everything I love about Forster in 14 very concise packages. Some of these stories are wickedly funny, others remarkably tragic and half are very gay. My favorites were definitely "The Obelisk," "The Classical Annex," and "Dr. Woolacott," but the rest are very entertaining as well. The st Leggi tutto
Kind of a goldmine for people interested in early c20th sexuality and queerness 🫡 loved it
this is a great book if you love the craft of forster. the stories in this are short enough to read on the bus, but written in the same style and with as much care as his novels. each one is a perfect little package.
"The Obelisk" is one of my favourite short stories. Brits on holiday: your husbands are gay.
What a fun little collection, I didn't expect to laugh that much over E.M. Forster... I mean his writings always have a touch of the humorous, but I find not a lot of laugh out loud moments; here we have that, lighter atmospheres and a lot of cheekiness. Published also after the death of the author, Leggi tutto
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