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A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
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Author: E.M. Forster
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A Passage to India (Penguin Classics) Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780141441160
ISBN: 014144116X
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Book Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2005-07-28
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780141441160
ISBN: 014144116X
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Book Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2005-07-28
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
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Review Summary: A Must Read, But It's No Ulysses
Review: Forster's novel is a classic. it appears on all "Top 100" lists, for list maniacs, but it is not really all that great. I can certainly think of a good many novels I'd rather read or reread. In the film version, the novel's exotic setting springs to life, of course, and that is 99% of the novel's appeal. Otherwise it is a rather dull social drama, which bears remarkable resemblance to the inter-sex squabbles D.H.Lawrence was so good at. Americans have a need to be liked that prevents them from going for the jugular in quite the same lacerating way the English can, unless, of course, it is with a knife. This novel is really about the disappointment women feel for their hypocritical men: husbands, brothers, and fathers. The ladies saw through the facade of English decency and authors like Lawrence (a woman-hater) and Forster (a man-lover) were on to it. Their men promised to treat Indians as though they were Englishmen but, of course, never did. Nor did they treat their women as ladies. Everybody except white Englishmen got ordered about senselessly and the women recognized the stupidity of it all and the mindless inhumanity of it. This is Forster's subject really, and when they go at it, his men and women sound astonishingly like the characters in "Women in Love." They could be anywhere, no where. By putting them in India, Forster created a classic.
Review Summary: A Must Read, But It's No Ulysses
Review: Forster's novel is a classic. it appears on all "Top 100" lists, for list maniacs, but it is not really all that great. I can certainly think of a good many novels I'd rather read or reread. In the film version, the novel's exotic setting springs to life, of course, and that is 99% of the novel's appeal. Otherwise it is a rather dull social drama, which bears remarkable resemblance to the inter-sex squabbles D.H.Lawrence was so good at. Americans have a need to be liked that prevents them from going for the jugular in quite the same lacerating way the English can, unless, of course, it is with a knife. This novel is really about the disappointment women feel for their hypocritical men: husbands, brothers, and fathers. The ladies saw through the facade of English decency and authors like Lawrence (a woman-hater) and Forster (a man-lover) were on to it. Their men promised to treat Indians as though they were Englishmen but, of course, never did. Nor did they treat their women as ladies. Everybody except white Englishmen got ordered about senselessly and the women recognized the stupidity of it all and the mindless inhumanity of it. This is Forster's subject really, and when they go at it, his men and women sound astonishingly like the characters in "Women in Love." They could be anywhere, no where. By putting them in India, Forster created a classic.