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E.M. Forster
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La Machine nous a volé le sens de l'espace et du toucher, elle a brouillé toute relation humaine, elle a paralysé nos corps et nos volontés, et maintenant, elle nous oblige à la vénérer. La Machine se développe - mais pas selon nos plans. La Machine agit - mais pas selon nos objectifs. Nous ne sommes rien de plus que des globules sanguins circulant dans ses artères.
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First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz. At its heart lie two families--the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the ardent Paul Wilcox, a series of events is sparked--some very funny, some very tragic--that results in a dispute over who will inherit Howards End, the Wilcoxes' charming country home. As much about the clash between individual wills as the clash between the sexes and the classes, Howards End is a novel whose central tenet, "Only connect," remains a powerful prescription for modern life.
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Forster. Quelques années avant le célèbre Avec vue sur l'Arno (adapté au cinéma en 1986 par James Ivory sous le titre Chambre avec vue), Forster y explore déjà le thème du voyage initiatique et du choc des cultures: la société anglaise étriquée de Sawston confrontée aux sortilèges d'un petit coin d'Italie, modelé sur la cité toscane de San Gimignano.
"Philippe fixait son regard sur le campanile d'Airolo. Mais ce sont les images du beau mythe d'Endymion qu'il voyait. Cette femme restait, jusqu'à la fin, une déesse.
Nul amour ne pouvait être dégradant pour elle : elle était hors de ce qui se dégrade. Ce dernier épisode, qu'elle jugeait si vil, qu'il jugeait si tragique, lui offrit, en tout cas, une beauté suprême. Philippe se sentit porté à une hauteur telle qu'il eût pu, désormais, sans regret, avouer à la jeune fille sa propre adoration.
A quoi bon ? Tout le merveilleux était arrivé."
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As Maurice Hall makes his way through a traditional English education, he projects an outer confidence that masks troubling questions about his own identity. Frustrated and unfulfilled, a product of the bourgeoisie he will grow to despise, he has difficulty acknowledging his nascent attraction to men.
At Cambridge he meets Clive, who opens his eyes to a less conventional view of the nature of love. Yet when Maurice is confronted by the societal pressures of life beyond university, self-doubt and heartbreak threaten his quest for happiness. -
Soon after the widowed Lilia Herriton arrives at the dusty Tuscan town of Monteriano with her friend Caroline Abbott, she falls in love with Gino Carella, a handsome-and younger-man. When her overbearing in-laws hear of the engagement, they panic, believing a marriage like that would dishonor their family and the memory of Lilia's late husband and their child.
Lilia's brother-in-law, Philip Herriton, rushes to Italy to stop the marriage and rescue Lilia from Gino. He soon discovers that he's too late, and that they've already married. Their impulsive decision will have major consequences-not just for the couple itself, but also for Caroline, Philip, and everyone else in their orbit.
Forster was just twenty-six in 1905 when Where Angels Fear to Tread, his first novel, was published. In a contemporary review, The Manchester Guardian called it almost startlingly original in its setting and the treatment of its motive, but also wondered if Forster could could be a little more charitable in future works. In 1991 it was made into a movie starring Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, and Rubert Graves. -