Word: forsters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Such is the artistry of David I can. Throughout his 42-year career, including such films as Doctor Zhivago, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia, Lean has been known for the intensity of his images. His newest effort, an adaptation of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, is another sweeping, superbly majestic movie, which conveys the plight of the lone, insignificant individual in a vast, inscrutable universe...
...PASSAGE TO INDIA. The subcontinent is not merely the setting for David Lean's masterly adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel; it is its heroically scaled hypnotic central character...
...postgraduate tour of Italy with his mother, he sprained an ankle and broke an arm. Lily was forced to bathe her incapacitated son, to her evident enjoyment. She wrote a relative: "He looks 1 splendid now I do him." Forster accepted such smothering care without open complaint. Indeed, he shared the feeling that he was an incompetent in worldly matters. During his 20s, he astonished a friend by stating his belief that telephone wires were hollow. Not even the publication of his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), could persuade some acquaintances that he had grown...
Neither did Forster, who kept on writing, driven by appreciative reviews and inner necessity. In varying forms, The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908) and Howards End (1910) all constituted a subtle rebellion from the tyranny of his mother and her circle, the comfortable middle-class English world of suburban villas and careful class distinctions. Against such strangulated values, the son set a fictional vision of the free discourse he had enjoyed at Cambridge, coupled with the warm sensuality he had glimpsed during travels in Italy and Greece...
...Only Connect" was Forster's epigraph for Howards End, a plea to unite civilized ponds with subterranean wells of feeling. Unfortunately, he had no exact idea until age 30 of how men and women made love, a defect that Author Katherine Mansfield tartly noted in Howards End: "I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella...