Changing My Mind
Changing My Mind
“M. FORSTER, MIDDLE MANAGER 1 In the taxonomy of English writing, E. M. Forster is not an exotic creature. We file him under Notable English Novelist, common or garden variety. Yet there is a sense in which Forster was something of a rare bird. He was largely free of vices commonly found in novelists of his generation—what’s unusual about Forster is what he didn’t do. He didn’t lean rightward with the years or allow nostalgia to morph into misanthropy; he never knelt for the pope or queen, nor did he flirt (ideologically speaking) with Hitler, Stalin or Mao; he never believed the novel was dead or the hills alive, continued to read contemporary fiction after the age of fifty, harbored no special hatred for the generation below or above him, did not come to feel that England had gone to hell in a handbasket, that its language was doomed, that lunatics were running the asylum or foreigners swamping the cities.
Still, like all notable English novelists, he was a tricky bugger. He made a f...aith of personal sincerity and a career of disingenuousness.MoreLess
Still, like all notable English novelists, he was a tricky bugger. He made a f...aith of personal sincerity and a career of disingenuousness.MoreLess
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