Forster’s 1924 classic, A Passage to India, is a bitingly caustic look at race relations in British India. Anyone with any knowledge of the British Empire will know that the average British attitude towards any indigenous person in the colonies was a blend of condescension, racism, and paternalism. ...
context - from E. M. Forster's letter - his opinions may seem offensive, and I have yet to see whether and how they surface in the novel, so for the time being, I'll mark it as a "to his closest Indian friend Syed Ross Masood - almost certainly the main model for the character of Aziz in A Passage t...
What a beautiful piece about the sad limitation of humanity when bridging cultures. It's uncomfortable, poignant, lovely, and human. I don't know how much more I can say, since there is actually little plot to the work itself, the pages being driven by description, be it of places, of people and t...
SPOILERSSo well done. I was so deeply invested in all the story people, especially Dr. Aziz, that when he finds himself in great trouble (at end of Part One), I could not continue reading. I even went to Wikipedia to read the synopsis to make sure he survived, but I still couldn't make myself go on ...
I really struggled through this one. The star rating is as objective as I can make it under the circumstances. The writing is beautiful, the characters vivid and engaging, and the story is poignant. However, my reading experience was heavily colored by current events (i.e. Ferguson and all the abhor...
Set during the years that England ruled India, A Passage to India explores the tensions created when different religious and ethnic groups share a country.For the most part, I was extremely bored with this book. The social conflicts between the British and the Indians were interesting for a little w...
This is one of those books where I enjoyed the writing far more than I enjoyed the story. There were passages that were so well written, so lovely, and so astute. At the same time I found myself feeling like this book would have been called Much Ado About Nothing if the title hadn't been already tak...
Nutshell: racism temporarily defeated by means of more or less permanent sexism. Novel promises to be an exercise in inverting baudrillardian dissimulation: “The streets are mean, the temples ineffective, and though a few fine houses exist they are hidden away in gardens or down alleys whose filt...
I locked myself up in my room to read this today, not because I was particularly eager to, but rather because I had to. Yup, summer reading is a bitch. Surprisingly, I really enjoyed this one. It was startlingly readable and quick, keeping my attention easily. One of my few drawbacks to it, however,...
Way back in the late 20th century when I was a teenager and the genre fiction 'industry,' with its absurdly blood-soaked TV tie ins hadn't been invented, I (and many others my age) slumped on the sofa with the novels of DH Lawrence - yes, really- with EM Forster, Emile Zola and of course, a bit of ...
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