pick"It was, however illogically, the good, the beautiful, the true, as opposed to the respectable, the pretty, the adequate. It was a landscape of Bocklin's beside a landscape of Leader's, strident and ill-considered, but quivering into supernatural life."
The contrast of the life of ideas led by the Schlegal sisters to the respectability of the Wilcoxes is explored in shrewd observations and sweeping musings on the changes in early ?
Billypar 20th century England. That sounds...boring. But it's not! Forster is not what I was expecting: way ahead of his time - nothing seems safe or dull. He lets himself get carried away with a line of thought, but never so much that he loses coherence. The Schlegals are compelling characters as we watch them rebel against some #papadontpreach characters that love technological progress and fear progressive ideas. @MOvember #ThoughtIWouldntLikeButDid 5y
Billypar @Cinfhen 5y
twohectobooks EM Forster is so good. His books read like they were published much later. 5y
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Cinfhen Images are gorgeous and book sounds wonderful too! #MaybeOneDay 5y
batsy I love this book so much 💜 Great point about how nothing seems safe or dull in his writing. 5y
Billypar @twohectobooks Agreed! He kind of seems like someone who was born into the wrong time. 5y
Billypar @Cinfhen I never would have picked it up if I didn't have Zadie Smith's On Beauty that is supposed to be inspired by it. 5y
Billypar @batsy Yeah, there were some passages that did all this wild stuff, and I was almost surprised when I reread them and it seemed like he was onto something. 5y
Leftcoastzen ❤️❤️❤️More people should read him. 5y
Billypar @Leftcoastzen Definitely! 🙄 5y
Anna40 Read almost all of Forster's books. My favorites are Howard's End, Maurice and A room with a view. But also loved Where angels fear to tread and Passage to India 5y
Billypar @Anna40 Thanks for those recommendations - I'm looking forward to reading more of his! 5y
Anna40 Yes. He's a wonderful author. But your post made me want to reread some of his books. I was in my 20s when I read them. Would be interesting to see how I feel about them now, especially the Schlegel sisters :) 5y
Billypar @Anna40 I don't reread much, but I do wonder about the favorites I read in my 20s- I'm just nervous they won't live up to how I remember them. But I think you'd still enjoy Howards End and the Schlegals. 5y