Edward M. Forster Libros

“A century after its publication, it seems as relevant as ever.” –The Guardian Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society’s often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics. Forster understood that his homage to same-sex love, if published when he completed it in 1914, would probably end his career. Thus, Maurice languished in a drawer for fifty-seven years, the author requesting it be published only after his death (along with his stories about homosexuality later collected in The Life to Come). Since its release in 1971, Maurice has been widely read and praised. It has been, and continues to be, adapted for major stage productions, including the 1987 Oscar-nominated film adaptation starring Hugh Grant and James Wilby.

Maurice, escrita en 1914 y publicada en 1971, cuenta la difícil adolescencia y juventud de un londinense perteneciente a la burguesía acomodada —cuyo nombre da título a la novela— que descubre de manera imprevista que sus sentimientos no son heterosexuales, sino que van dirigidos a individuos de su propio sexo. La obra está dedicada a «tiempos mejores», o sea, a una época más dichosa que pudiera contempla r sin hostilidad las claves íntimas que laten en sus páginas. La dedicatoria encierra así la intención de un libro delicado y sutil que su autor no se atrevió a publicar en vida, por temor a chocar con el pu ritanismo que imperó en la sociedad británica.

La importancia y sentido de Pasaje a la India, considerada de forma casi unánime la obra cumbre de su autor, no se reducen en modo alguno a la simple denuncia de los estragos causados por el imperialismo británico en el subcontinente indio, sino que E. M. Forster lleva a cabo en ella la transposición poética del enfrentamiento de dos mundos opuestos, Oriente y Occidente; de dos actitudes mentales, la intuitiva y la lógica; de dos principios reducidos a norma de conducta, la estética y el pragmatismo. Un conjunto de oposiciones aglutinado por la poesía y el humor y sobre el que planea, a lo largo de toda la novela, la imposibilidad de comunicación de dos seres unidos por la amistad o el amor.

La importancia y sentido de Pasaje a la India, considerada de forma casi unánime la obra cumbre de su autor, no se reducen en modo alguno a la simple denuncia de los estragos causados por el imperialismo británico en el subcontinente indio, sino que E. M. Forster lleva a cabo en ella la transposición poética del enfrentamiento de dos mundos opuestos, Oriente y Occidente; de dos actitudes mentales, la intuitiva y la lógica; de dos principios reducidos a norma de conducta, la estética y el pragmatismo. Un conjunto de oposiciones aglutinado por la poesía y el humor y sobre el que planea, a lo largo de toda la novela, la imposibilidad de comunicación de dos seres unidos por la amistad o el amor.

1993

The letters of the last half of E. M. Forster's life are as engaging as those of his earlier years. Imbued with the same wit, warmth, and vitality, they reveal the breadth of his interests and the great range and enduring quality of his friendships. After a second trip to India in 1921, Forster finally finished the Indian novel he had begun years before. A Passage to India (1924) capped his career as a novelist; he then turned his energies to essays and other nonfictional prose. In the 1930s he emerged as an active journalist, writing and broadcasting on social and political issues. He fought for civil liberties and led a successful campaign against the BBC's political blacklisting of performers. His correspondents during these years included T. S. Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, Lennard and Virginia Woolf, Christopher Isherwood, and Stephen Spender. At seventy Forster began along, happy, and productive new period in his life with his work on the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd . In 1960 he was a leading defense witness in the Lady Chatterley trial. By then he was a revered figure among literati and enjoyed advising younger writers. In these last decades he divided his time between his rooms at King's College, Cambridge, and the home of his friends the Buckinghams in Coventry, where he died at age ninety-one.

1923. English author and critic, member of Bloomsbury group and friend of Virginia Woolf who achieved fame through his novels, which include: Room with a View, Maurice, A Passage to India, and Howard's End. The Celestial Omnibus is a collection of short-stories Forster wrote during the prewar years, most of which were symbolic fantasies or fables. Contents: The Story of a Panic; The Other Side of the Hedge; The Celestial Omnibus; Other Kingdom; The Curate's Friend; and The Road from Colonus. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Known for his ironic and beautifully crafted novels, Edward Morgan Forster explores themes of hypocrisy and discrimination prevalent in early 20th-century British society. His work features engaging plots that reveal the complexities of social interactions and moral dilemmas, offering a critical perspective on the era's cultural norms.