A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster
by:
Wendy Moffat (author)
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyALA Stonewall Honor BookFinalist for James Tait Black Memorial PrizeE. M. Forster’s homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Wilde’s imprisonment and the Stonewall riots,...
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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyALA Stonewall Honor BookFinalist for James Tait Black Memorial PrizeE. M. Forster’s homosexuality was the central fact of his life. Between Wilde’s imprisonment and the Stonewall riots, Forster led a long, strange, and imaginative life as a gay man. He preserved a vast archive of his private life-a history of gay experience he believed would find its audience in a happier time. Seeing Forster’s life through the lens of his sexuality, Wendy Moffat’s biography offers us a dramatic new view-revealing his astuteness as a social critic, his political bravery, and his prophetic vision of gay intimacy. A Great Unrecorded History casts fresh light on one of the most beloved writers of the twentieth century.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312572891 (0312572891)
Publish date: April 26th 2011
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Language,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Biography Memoir,
Glbt,
Gay
Before judging my reading experience of this book based on my star rating, let me say this: This was not a bad book and there are aspects of this biography that provide a valuable insight into Forster's life and work. However, this biography really follows Forster's life from one angle only, depen...
Esta é a biografia "escondida" de E. M. Forster, em que a vida e a obra do grande autor são vistas (pela primeira vez?) à luz da sua homossexualidade. John Sutherland, na Literary Review, pergunta-se sobre esta biografia de Forster: «Será que quero mesmo saber isto tudo?» e prossegue: «Em minha opin...