di Gianni Quilici
then Pasolini, where "Maurice" is traced with the critical acumen and the happiness of those who has understood in its most hidden, and there reveals the strength and grace.
What is striking is a series of interconnected elements, rappresentatitivi and poetic, stylistic and ideological, that catch the early twentieth century English society, with sharp differences in classes, violently repressive morality and homosexuality as a sin punishable by Prison is a terrible sense of guilt.
EM Forster makes us live through Maurice, the main character, adherence to the bourgeois values \u200b\u200bof the first time, the homosexual desires removed, the shame of desires, then a net change of behaviors (decided the original character of the grandfather), a change of perspective, a revolt that slowly, gradually acquiring knowledge, it becomes clear and brave, which places it against his social class , of which "sees" all the meanness, and against cruel and obtuse morality of the time. The key
profound love-desire to a young man of the people, where uncertainties and disagreements, ambiguity is returned.
significant element of the novel: the suffering that Maurice must go through the ignorance, loneliness, social ruthlessness in which a young homosexual came to visit England Victorian.
This change of view and perspectives of Maurice is also stylistic change, covers the same Forster, who assumes different points of view, remaining orchestrator, above the characters, outside the climate that they live.
Forster wrote it in 1913, but such scrupulous provisions for its posthumous publication (will 1971) and his final comment was this:
"Publishable ... But it's worth it?"
EM Forster. Maurice. Translation by Marcella Bonsanti. Garzanti.
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