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"For close to half a century, the admirers of E.M. Forster wondered why his career as a novelist suddenly ended. Before the First World War, he wrote four novels, two of which, A Room with a View and Howards End, are still widely read. In 1924 his fifth, A Passage to India, certified him as England's most admired living novelist.
He was then 45, with his life only half over. But he published no more novels. That remained a mystery until after his death in 1970, when readers began slowly to understand that homosexuality was the reason.
Biographers and critics claim to see sexuality as a side issue in Forster's work but Wendy Moffat, who teaches English at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, has now set forth a sharply different view. In her first book, A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster (Farrar Straus and Giroux), she argues persuasively that it's essential to understanding his career.
After a great deal of research in both published and unpublished sources, she's constructed a detailed account of the private life he lived. Her narrative slightly resembles a Forster novel, much less talented than any of his but in an emotional sense more direct, precise and faithful to his own feelings. It's also an excellent sketch of the changing status of homosexuals in his time."
More at: A closet with a view
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He was then 45, with his life only half over. But he published no more novels. That remained a mystery until after his death in 1970, when readers began slowly to understand that homosexuality was the reason.
Biographers and critics claim to see sexuality as a side issue in Forster's work but Wendy Moffat, who teaches English at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, has now set forth a sharply different view. In her first book, A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster (Farrar Straus and Giroux), she argues persuasively that it's essential to understanding his career.
After a great deal of research in both published and unpublished sources, she's constructed a detailed account of the private life he lived. Her narrative slightly resembles a Forster novel, much less talented than any of his but in an emotional sense more direct, precise and faithful to his own feelings. It's also an excellent sketch of the changing status of homosexuals in his time."
More at: A closet with a view
[amazon]0374166781[/amazon]