A Passage to India | Techniques
Forster may have been the first (only, perhaps) novelist to treat mysterious India realistically—to uncover it, as it were—simply because he possessed a more than adequate degree of knowledge about the land and its people, and he nurtured a commitment toward what it represented. The key to understanding his technique in A Passage to India hinges on the understanding that Forster began the work after he returned from India in 1913, could (or would) not finish it, and set it aside for ten years until after he had returned from his second visit in 1922. Part of the problem,...
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