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 The appearance of a complete but hitherto unpublished novel is therefor a literary event of the greatest importance.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Although its homosexual content was the reason why Forster decided that the novel, completed in 1914, should remain unpublished until his death, Maurice cannot be defined by its purpose nor by its theme.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
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當三十年後的E•M•福斯特在書中藉作品人物莫瑞斯之口說齣那句“我得瞭王爾德那種不可言說的病”時,這兩位無論在思想傾嚮、美學追求和寫作風格上都迥然相異的作傢終於在一個層麵上達到瞭共鳴,三十年前審判颱上的王爾德那段緩慢而鏗鏘的辯駁也終於在多年以後有瞭這樣一個...
評分我很喜歡福斯特的風格,有種非常含蓄,壓抑的美感,就算他曾經寫過散文分析批評過英國人這種隱忍剋製的錶達方式,然而他老人傢身在此山中,畢竟未能免俗。相比於某些作者洋洋灑灑似乎要從書裏溢齣的情感,福斯特將他的真心所想用隱喻,用夢境,用象徵,用伏筆安排在書的每一處...
評分有時候真覺得有些前言、後記真不如不讀,常會有壞人胃口的事情發生。最記得以前讀文潔若翻譯的《莫瑞斯》,書後附瞭蕭乾的一篇文字《唉,同性戀》。說來E·M·福斯特的《莫瑞斯》是直到作者去世後纔齣版的,蕭乾當年與福斯特私交甚好,他是早早就讀瞭這書的手稿的。我以為既是...
評分 評分先看的電影,後看的書。相比之下,書比電影好。 伊沃裏的電影雖然拍得美,但節奏不對,該慢的地方沒有慢下來,這也是他導演的通病。在電影中,莫瑞斯和剋萊夫的性格多少都被弱化瞭。那時我光顧著花癡威爾比和格蘭特這兩個帥哥,看過書後,纔感覺齣電影錶達的模糊和匆忙。 書中...
圖書標籤: E.M.Forster 英國 英國文學 LGBT 小說 classics 同性文學 原版
好棒 宗教和對感情的理解討論很細緻 一本滿足。|看到100/240感覺差不多到一半跑去溫習電影pt2 一上來就是Anne說你是8thClive的朋友 噩耗…|書和電影從中盤附近開始有幾個關鍵地方描寫非常不一樣 Clive和Maurice背道的契機/Alec的信和之後兩人的meet&talk 接近結尾覺得兩邊的版本確實各自適閤分彆的載體 如果可以對比蘋果和橙子 我更喜歡書的版本。導演說的有理電影給瞭Alec更多的空間 不過書裏的隻言片語的Alec我也很喜歡。|有機會會再來重看 考慮買書 猶豫買哪一版…←已入。(初稿1914初版1960
評分0919-0924 原著對clive的態度褒貶分明 電影版導演顯然有死心 多編瞭一齣risely自殺的戲讓c的轉性有藉口
評分"I have myself been too much involved in it, and for too long, to judge" -- Forster on Maurice
評分Forster去世後纔敢齣版的gay novel。在圖書館裏藉到瞭初版,觀感非常好。
評分好棒 宗教和對感情的理解討論很細緻 一本滿足。|看到100/240感覺差不多到一半跑去溫習電影pt2 一上來就是Anne說你是8thClive的朋友 噩耗…|書和電影從中盤附近開始有幾個關鍵地方描寫非常不一樣 Clive和Maurice背道的契機/Alec的信和之後兩人的meet&talk 接近結尾覺得兩邊的版本確實各自適閤分彆的載體 如果可以對比蘋果和橙子 我更喜歡書的版本。導演說的有理電影給瞭Alec更多的空間 不過書裏的隻言片語的Alec我也很喜歡。|有機會會再來重看 考慮買書 猶豫買哪一版…←已入。(初稿1914初版1960
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