![]() ![]() I appreciate the fact that Maurice, unlike Forster himself, is a very unremarkable man: he's conservative, a bit of a snob, not very interested in music or philosophy and rather dull. ![]() But it's an invaluable document about a group of men who experience the love that dare not speak its name (to borrow from Wilde). So very sad.īut how triumphant for Forster to have written this book and dedicated it "to a happier year." No one would argue that this is Forster's best novel. ![]() He eventually comes up with something about Oscar Wilde. One of the most touching things about this very moving book is seeing the protagonist – the closeted, very ordinary stockbroker Maurice – struggling to describe who he is and what he's feeling. For a man to be with another man was a criminal offense. When Forster penned Maurice, homosexuality was so taboo that there was no name for it. What a gift to have a novel about same sex love written a century ago by one of the premier 20th century British authors! It eventually came out after his death, in the early 1970s. Forster ( Howards End, A Room With A View) finished this gay-themed novel in 1914, and though he showed it to some close friends, he didn't publish it in his lifetime. ![]()
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