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3.78 AVERAGE
3.78 AVERAGE
I will read this again and again just for Miss Bartlett. Icon xx
Aesthetically pleasing, romantic, and beautifully written. Forster is the master of creating romantic tension.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Don't think I'm the target audience
Having already heard about this book in The Second Sex, A Room of One's Own, and (perhaps most strangely but also certainly persustently) The Pairing and already having had a vested interest in E. M. Forster as an author from Maurice, I was intrigued by this book.
Much like Maurice,Forster is very comfortable giving his characters unlikely happy endings, which was a pleasant surprise. It was nice to see a woman as a sympathetic character in a novel published in 1908, and not just sympathetic but also unrealized to her fullest extent in her current situation. I don't know exactly what literary movement one would classift this work as falling into, but it's full of lovely classical references and allusions and has multiple female characters with (heavena forbid) personalities who make interesting choices, and I really do love the dad to pieces, and it really was a very charming novel that had things to say and also did not feel the need to cause unnecessary suffering to say them.
The literary equivalent of shortbread cookies with your earl grey.
Much like Maurice,
The literary equivalent of shortbread cookies with your earl grey.
This book made me happy when I read it. I remember finishing it and just sighing and feeling content.
"Las señoritas Alan se fueron a Grecia, pero fueron solas. Abandonadas de su joven compañera atravesaron Malea y labraron las, aguas del golfo Sarónico. Solas visitaron Atenas y Delfos, ambas consagradas por la literatura, una sobre la Acrópolis, rodeada por mares azules, y el Parnaso, donde las águilas de piedra y las aurigas de bronce se dirigen sin desmayo hacia el infinito. Temblorosas, ansiosas, embotadas por la gran cantidad de pan digestivo, prosiguieron firmemente hacia Constantinopla y dieron la vuelta al mundo. Pero nosotros debemos contentarnos con una bonita pero menos ardua meta. "Italia petimus :volvemos a la pensión Bertolini.
Una habitacion con vistas, 1908
E. M. Forster
@rba_libros 1991
Traducción de Marta Pessarrodona
Tomando como excusa las peripecias de un variado grupo de ingleses reunidos en la misma pensión de Florencia, y centrándose en el despertar sentimental de la joven Lucy Honeychurch, E. M. Forster escribe una maravillosa novela que refleja tanto la lucha interna de Lucy por encontrar su propio camino, como critica la encorsetada sociedad británica de principios del siglo XX con premisas muy válidas en la actualidad.
Merece la pena ver la bellísima versión cinematográfica dirigida por James Ivory en 1985 y protagonizada por algunos de los más brillantes actores británicos : Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith, Julian Sands, Judi Dench, Daniel Day Lewis.....
Qué maravilla cuando te topas con una lectura inesperada y en tan buena compañía. Gracias a @lauralovebook y el grupo British!
Una habitacion con vistas, 1908
E. M. Forster
@rba_libros 1991
Traducción de Marta Pessarrodona
Tomando como excusa las peripecias de un variado grupo de ingleses reunidos en la misma pensión de Florencia, y centrándose en el despertar sentimental de la joven Lucy Honeychurch, E. M. Forster escribe una maravillosa novela que refleja tanto la lucha interna de Lucy por encontrar su propio camino, como critica la encorsetada sociedad británica de principios del siglo XX con premisas muy válidas en la actualidad.
Merece la pena ver la bellísima versión cinematográfica dirigida por James Ivory en 1985 y protagonizada por algunos de los más brillantes actores británicos : Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith, Julian Sands, Judi Dench, Daniel Day Lewis.....
Qué maravilla cuando te topas con una lectura inesperada y en tan buena compañía. Gracias a @lauralovebook y el grupo British!
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
“Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.”
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This book transported me in a way I didn't expect. It really was a holiday in a book. Forster sets scenes so well, and the characters were all realistic. I felt sad at the end, but everything really was tied off very nicely.
Wonderful and charming, I just love Forster's wit and insight.