E. M. Forster's reputation as one of the finest writers of the twentieth century is based on an output which is both modest in size and remote in time: his last novel, A Passage to India, was published in 1924. The appearance of a complete but hitherto unpublished novel is therefor a literary event of the greatest importance.
Maurice describes the long and difficult process by a typical product of middle-class suburbia and education realizes that he is a homosexual. It culminates in an ecstatic love affair by which Maurice both fulfills his nature and, in the compelling series of episodes by which the book closes, rejects his entire inherited system of values and conduct. In this combination - of fulfillment and its inevitable concomitant, rejection - lie the author's reasons and inspiration for writing the novel. Forster wished at once to demonstrate the possibility of love outside normal experience and to expose the rigid structure and morality of a society that did not merely condemn such experience as immoral, but in a more insidious way, regarded it as unnatural.
Although its homosexual content was the reason why Forster decided that the novel, completed in 1914, should remain unpublished until his death, Maurice cannot be defined by its purpose nor by its theme. It was written by a great novelist at the height of his powers - as those who read it surely find evident.
The First Edition, published 1971 by Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. 41 Maddox Street, London W1R OAN
© 1971 The Trustees of the late E. M. Forster
Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk
Begun 1913
Finished 1914
Dedicated to a Happier Year
Introduction by P. N. Furbank
先看的电影,后看的书。相比之下,书比电影好。 伊沃里的电影虽然拍得美,但节奏不对,该慢的地方没有慢下来,这也是他导演的通病。在电影中,莫瑞斯和克莱夫的性格多少都被弱化了。那时我光顾着花痴威尔比和格兰特这两个帅哥,看过书后,才感觉出电影表达的模糊和匆忙。 书中...
评分这本书的英文版我很长时间以前就已经下载下来,一直在电脑里面放着。到了Harvard这边了以后,每天除了上课以外有很多时间空下来,可以自己安排任何想做的事情。恰好前几天电脑又坏掉无法立刻得到修理,所以就干脆借来了这本书,花了几个晚上读完了。 一、关于人物 废话不多说...
评分 评分我很喜欢福斯特的风格,有种非常含蓄,压抑的美感,就算他曾经写过散文分析批评过英国人这种隐忍克制的表达方式,然而他老人家身在此山中,毕竟未能免俗。相比于某些作者洋洋洒洒似乎要从书里溢出的情感,福斯特将他的真心所想用隐喻,用梦境,用象征,用伏笔安排在书的每一处...
评分Forster去世后才敢出版的gay novel。在图书馆里借到了初版,观感非常好。
评分好棒 宗教和对感情的理解讨论很细致 一本满足。|看到100/240感觉差不多到一半跑去温习电影pt2 一上来就是Anne说你是8thClive的朋友 噩耗…|书和电影从中盘附近开始有几个关键地方描写非常不一样 Clive和Maurice背道的契机/Alec的信和之后两人的meet&talk 接近结尾觉得两边的版本确实各自适合分别的载体 如果可以对比苹果和橙子 我更喜欢书的版本。导演说的有理电影给了Alec更多的空间 不过书里的只言片语的Alec我也很喜欢。|有机会会再来重看 考虑买书 犹豫买哪一版…←已入。(初稿1914初版1960
评分0919-0924 原著对clive的态度褒贬分明 电影版导演显然有死心 多编了一出risely自杀的戏让c的转性有借口
评分终有一死的凡人的爱
评分终有一死的凡人的爱
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