What did happen to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalizing question provides the intense drama of racial tension at the centre of Forster's last and greatest novel. After a mysterious incident during their visit to the caves, the charming Dr Aziz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naive young Englishwoman new to India. As he is brought to trial, the fragile structure of Anglo-Indian relations collapses and the racism inherent in colonialism is exposed in all its ugliness - a theme which still has powerful, dangerous realities today.
India calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But What does she want? The ruling class--Anglo-Indians had never truly understood her. Or, did it ever care to ? Even Indians cannot represent India. Then, what is India....
评分对于大英帝国的殖民地的观点来说,一类显然是吉卜林,认为这是大英帝国的光荣,给殖民地带来了文明(《吉姆》);另一类应该就是奥威尔(《缅甸岁月》)。那么究竟是怎么样呢?要是以前我可能会说奥威尔的更“正确”,因为我毕竟是个半殖民地的后代。但看完此书后我觉得也...
评分E.M.福斯特是个绅士,可是像我一样有真知灼见,他说:“大多数印度人,像大多数英国人一样,是狗屎。”你看,可不只我一个人认为人类基本上是个由SB组成的物种。2007年,我好像是在一个火车站里遛遛哒哒,偶尔坐下来卖个呆儿,我看见天下熙熙,全是SB,天下攘攘,一如既...
评分“最漫长的旅程”——《印度之行》读书笔记 福斯特(1879-1970)同乔伊斯、劳伦斯和伍尔夫被称为20世纪英国最伟大的小说家。主要作品有《天使惧于涉足之地》(1905)、《最漫长的旅程》(1907)、《看得见风景的房间》(1908)、《霍华德别业》(1910)、《印度之行》(1924)...
评分抄录书中极短的一章。其间的文字有大美。交错的人,事,和物,走笔一处,又荡开去,起伏开合,大波浪里亦有细碎的水花闪烁。 Chapter 10 THE heat had leapt forward in the last hour, the street was deserted as if a catastrophe had cleaned off humanity during the in...
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