A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (754 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374166781 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Foster Corbin said "I Should Want Everything Told, Everything.". The great novelist E. M. Forster on the subject of his posthumous legacy wanted everything told. Wendy Moffat, to her credit, certainly does just that. In A GREAT UNRECORDED HISTORY, a quotation from Forster, as are all the chapter headings, Moffat draws from his journals and a "locked diary" that he kept for sixty years as well as interviews with his friends. She also includes voluminous notes and an extensive bibliography at the end of this most informative and heartwarming biography.It of course has been long known by readers that Forster's novel MAURICE and a collection of short. Illuminating and engrossing Emily Wylie It's not an easy thing to write with Forster-esque humanity, humor, and acute perception in any genre, but Wendy Moffat has done it here, in a biography of all things, writing a "new life" of E.M. Forster. I have loved Forster's work for a long time, and built an image of him in my headso it was a risk, a bit, to read a biography of him.however, i've come out of it with my love intact and deepened. Moffat builds a portrait that I think Morgan Forster would have liked: amused, humane, casting a wide net to gather in all the parts of his life that informed his work. Which is nice, con. "A fine, absorbing biography" according to Michael Squires. Wendy Moffat's new biography opens in an amateur, theatrical way - probably the opening a literary agent demanded. But after she settles down to Forster's life and portrays the ways in which Forster crept out - passively and furtively - from his mother Lily's cruel thumb, the book is readable, insightful, well paced, and often highly absorbing. His Cambridge friends, from HOM to Leonard Woolf, reveal how central were his early university experiences. Later, the sexual relationships he managed to secure show an amazing tolerance for half-requited passion. Despite his core of passivit
He preserved a vast archive of his private life—a history of gay experience he believed would find its audience in a happier time. A Great Unrecorded History invites us to see Forster— and modern gay history—from a completely new angle.. A Great Unrecorded History is a biography of the heart. As Wendy Moffat persuasively argues in A Great Unrecorded History, Forster’s homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Forster came out as a homosexual— though that revelation made barely a ripple in his literary reputation. A REVELATORY LOOK
In fact, it shines with the beauty its subject was made sad that he did not possess. He realized early on his attraction to his own gender, and we are given, with no hint of salaciousness, an honest account of his sex life over the years. --Brad Hooper . Forster (1879–1970), author of such classic novels as Howards End (1910) and Passage to India (1924), was gay. But Moffat places, more firmly than has been done by previous biographers, Forster’s homosexuality at the core of his being, both as the lode