Word: forster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that would tantalize posterity. Though it jangled with a bumptious satire reminiscent of Austen's youthful burlesques, it seemed to project something both ambitious and new. When it was finally published in 1925 under the title Sanditon-named for the seaside resort town of its setting-E.M. Forster saluted the prescient way the book portrayed nature as "a geographic and economic force." Virginia Woolf said that if completed, Sanditon would have shown Austen to be a forerunner of Henry James and Proust...
...remember one of Nick's favorite books from last year: E.M. Forster's Howard's End; it happened to be my favorite book at one point, and I can't remember now which of us influenced the other--although such an occurrence is not infrequent among friends. Now, Nick and I both knew that Forster was a "bourgeois" novelist, but still, Nick told me of crying at the plea that Forster puts in the mouth of the wise Meg--"only connect," she says--only connect your own sufferings, your longings as a person, to other people's. That was what...
...often experienced books simultaneously. In addition to Forster, there was Ignazio Silone's Bread and Wine, the story of an Italian Communist resistance fighter who returns to fascist Italy disguised as a priest. Nick's father was a well-known Pittsburgh doctor; mine a Chicago criminal lawyer. The personal poignance of Pietro Spina, the rich young man who gives his life to the poor, and foregoes comfort because of his faith--not in God, but in his people--was so close to our hopes (I hope not illusions) about ourselves...
...Forster is associate director and general counsel of the Anti-Defamation League of B 'nai B 'rith...
...from Oxford with ambitions of becoming a novelist or an epic poet. Instead he wrote mostly critical essays, which soon established him as a powerful influence among English intellectuals. In 1939 he founded the monthly magazine Horizon, which became a literary showcase, publishing the likes of T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster and Andre Gide...