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.
《印度之行》不愧于福斯特最有传世影响的小说,在保留传统式的情节走向叙述和外部世界的宏观描写的同时,角色内心世界描写的分量大大加重,并大量地辅之以象征手法。因此有不少人把《印度之行》视为现代主义和现实小说之间的过渡品。其实无论什么殖民政治文学还是什么前现...
評分今天去湾仔天地书局,前天在此买的印度之旅已经售罄。想不到百年前的殖民小说还有不少拥趸。 至此,英国殖民三部曲已经全部读完,吉姆,印度之旅,缅甸岁月,三部各千秋。 处于帝国升平,生于北印的吉卜林盛赞英国赠予殖民地的免费礼物: 被殖民,即使“一颗白人的头颅要用一百...
評分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....
評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...
評分E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India explores the difficulty in the mutual understanding and cohabitation of the British and the Indian people in British India in the early twentieth century. The major events centers on an alleged attempted rape. Dr. Aziz, t...
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