Título : |
MAURICE |
Tipo de documento: |
texto impreso |
Autores: |
FORSTER, E. M. |
Editorial: |
LONDON : PENGUIN |
Fecha de publicación: |
1972 |
Número de páginas: |
221pp. |
Idioma : |
Inglés (eng) |
Palabras clave: |
FICTION |
Resumen: |
Maurice is born into a privileged way of life. He grows up confident in status, precise in social ritual. Yet although priggish and conforming, Maurice finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening. COMPLETED IN 1914, "MAURICE" IS A POWERFUL CONDEMNATION OF THE REPRESSIVE ATTITUDES OF BRITISH SOCIETY AND A PLEA FOR EMOTIONAL AND SEXUAL HONESTY . aWARE THET ITS PUBLICATION WOULD CAUSE A FURORE, fORSTER ENSURED THAT IT DID NOT APPEAR UNTIL AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1970. |
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