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Chargement... Avec vue sur l'Arno (1908)par E. M. Forster
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I think, again, this is a book where I probably approached it wrong. Looking at friends' reviews I see stuff about a queer subtext which looking back is very believable! I quickly settled into looking at it as primarily "merely" a portrait of a particular class of people and their social interactions and formalised ideas of life, and I often found it pretty inscrutable. Sometimes it's blunt, but most of the subtlety seemed to be based on social standards and expectations that I can't possibly understand. I felt like I was missing important undertones everywhere. By the end I just felt like the "point" had flown by me. My fault for sure shortish book full of silly mis understandings and English manners disguised as politeness (especially in their disguise of the English Abroad) that gets Lucy engaged to Cecil, only to be confronted with George. George, the awkward Englishman she met on holiday in Florence, who kissed her in the violets, and who she's in love with really but it takes her ages, and a return to England, to realise she's in love Easily my least favorite of his major works. The book was, for me, so much of a slog that about halfway through, I put it aside for more than a month. I found the writing just tedious. Finally, I picked it back up and, with the exception of the last chapter or so, pushed myself to finish it. I truly enjoyed, say, Howard’s End and with Passage to India, but the writing here struck me as difficult. I couldn’t always follow the story, frankly, and thinking about it, I believe it is because Forster is being more much more oblique. That is, I think, in part because he is writing about English society and the people he was writing about made it a point to be oblique: candor and clarity were nothing if not avoided. Indeed, several times I went back over chapters I’d read when, later in the book, a character referred to something that I simply didn’t catch or understand at the time. I did think the last chapter or two improved things markedly, but overall, I was very disappointed at the difficulty I had and how little I ultimately I enjoyed it.
E M Forsters romantext präglas av en oerhört njutbar balans mellan utsagt och outsagt, mellan ytlig elegans och underförstådda referenser till en betydligt dunklare verklighet. Appartient à la série éditoriale — 11 plus Est contenu dansHowards End / The Longest Journey / A Room with a View / Where Angels Fear to Tread par E. M. Forster Howards End / The Longest Journey / The Machine Stops / A Room With A View / Where Angels Fear to Tread par E. M. Forster Where Angels Fear to Tread / The Longest Journey / A Room With a View / Howards End / A Passage to India par E. M. Forster Howards End / The Longest Journey / Maurice / A Passage to India / A Room With a View / Where Angels Fear to Tread par E. M. Forster Penguin Modern Classics: 10 books set Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Day of the Triffids, The Jungle Books, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, A Room with a View, Goldfinger, A Clockwork Orange, A Kestrel for a Knave, Lolita and Orlando par Penguin 90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1): Novels, Poetry, Plays, Short Stories, Essays, Psychology & Philosophy par Various Fait l'objet d'une adaptation dansContient un guide de lecture pour étudiant
This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George Emerson--who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist--Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires. Back in England she is courted by a more acceptable, if stifling, suitor, and soon realizes she must make a startling decision that will decide the course of her future: she is forced to choose between convention and passion. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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