A review by dellaposta
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

3.75

Mid-way through A Passage to India, I had the feeling that it felt like the work of a great moralist and just a pretty good novelist. From there, though, Forster lets his main characters — who initially feel like thin archetypes — go in so many genuinely surprising directions, including some that I’m still puzzling over and can’t tell if they are the work of an incredibly subtle writer or just an inattentive one. By the end, you get the feeling for Forster being a writer with surprising optimism in his view of human nature, and bottomless cynicism in his view of human societies.