The Stories of Forster (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: E. M. Forster
- First Published: 1911
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Freedom, Prisoners, Twentieth century, Nature, Supernatural, Escapes, Europe or Europeans, Emotions, England or English people
Critical Evaluation:
Whether on business or vacation, a man—say he is middle-aged—leaves an England which is debased, industrial, and unpoetic for a Mediterranean country such as Italy or Greece. What he finds as if by accident in this more primitive, preindustrial country, in a momentary event that is both in and out of time, a surprising perception wherein he discovers his genuine identity, obliges him quite literally to change his living in accord with the new knowledge of self, or die. Such is the archetypal if not practical situation which lies at the base of the short...
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