E. M. Forster: A Life I. (töredék)

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Edward Morgan Forster became in the course of a long life one of the most outstanding men of letters of his day. He was world famous for at least two novels, a brilliant critic and essayist, a man, however reluctantly, often in the public eye, respected and loved alike by his contemporaries and later by a host of disi iples. In Forster's closing years (he diad in 1970 at the age of 91) the author of this fine biography, based on the full range of the subject's writings, diaries and correspondence, became a close, if much younger, friend. He was in fact invited by Forster to write this biography. In this first volume Mr Furbank takes us through Forster's childhood and adolescence, with its mixed family background of Bohemia and prim respectability. Forster experienced a year or two of bitter unhappiness at his public school, but found happiness and awakening in the tolerant atmosphere of Cambridge and a further "revelation" in Italy, where, while travelling with his mother, he... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Edward Morgan Forster became in the course of a long life one of the most outstanding men of letters of his day. He was world famous for at least two novels, a brilliant critic and essayist, a man, however reluctantly, often in the public eye, respected and loved alike by his contemporaries and later by a host of disi iples. In Forster's closing years (he diad in 1970 at the age of 91) the author of this fine biography, based on the full range of the subject's writings, diaries and correspondence, became a close, if much younger, friend. He was in fact invited by Forster to write this biography. In this first volume Mr Furbank takes us through Forster's childhood and adolescence, with its mixed family background of Bohemia and prim respectability. Forster experienced a year or two of bitter unhappiness at his public school, but found happiness and awakening in the tolerant atmosphere of Cambridge and a further "revelation" in Italy, where, while travelling with his mother, he began writing in earnest. At this time he was lecturing at the Working Men's College and for a while was tutor in Germany to the daughters of "Elizabeth", the author of the famous Elizabeth and Her German Garden. Publication of his novel Howards End in 1910 brought him wider fame, and Mr Furbank finely describes his emergence as a public figure. He takes Forster's career forward to 1914, covering his first visit to India and the writing of his homosexual novel Maurice. Vissza