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A review by ezrasupremacy
Maurice by E.M. Forster
4.0
this was not what i expected it to be, and i am certainly glad of it. as far as classics go this was very accessible, and i did rather devour it (though it is also not particularly long, so that’s neither here nor there).
this was a very lovely and painful and real look at the england of this time, and i did especially enjoy and was made to think long and hard during passages describing how us homosexuals were treated back then, what happened to us, and especially the 1960 writing of forster’s that was included in the back helped me put things into perspective. it was extremely heartbreaking to read the perspective and hopelessness regarding gay acceptance that i feel today mirrored in a gay man’s writing from the early 20th century. to quote a passage of the book that has stuck with me, “It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.” somehow this sentence, more than any other, made me feel connected to maurice and in turk to forster. we have always been here. i wish to see more and more of how we have been, and i also wish to see how we will be.
alas.
this was a very lovely and painful and real look at the england of this time, and i did especially enjoy and was made to think long and hard during passages describing how us homosexuals were treated back then, what happened to us, and especially the 1960 writing of forster’s that was included in the back helped me put things into perspective. it was extremely heartbreaking to read the perspective and hopelessness regarding gay acceptance that i feel today mirrored in a gay man’s writing from the early 20th century. to quote a passage of the book that has stuck with me, “It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.” somehow this sentence, more than any other, made me feel connected to maurice and in turk to forster. we have always been here. i wish to see more and more of how we have been, and i also wish to see how we will be.
alas.