Maurice by E.M. Forster | Bookish Favourites
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- Published posthumously, this E.M. Forster novel is unusually raw and melancholy, and one of my absolute favourites.
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I think this book is stunning. Maurice takes us through his journey of coming to terms with his sexuality and the realisation that his true self would never be accepted by society and how that affects him. I like the fact the book doesn’t focus on romance necessarily but on self discovery and self acceptance in a time when such things were outcasted by society. It feels very personal to read especially knowing E.M.Forster was unable to publish this book during his lifetime.
That's still my favourite gay-themed book (and film) ever, it's so strange considering when it was written. I'm a lesbian in an increasingly homophobic country, and many of Maurice's experiences are very familiar to me.
I like that Maurice is portrayed as a very average guy, being gay is just one part of who he is as a person, it doesn’t make him stand out much, he is not stereotypical at all. I also appreciate the idea that there doesn’t have to be this concept of soulmates and that your first love, even if it was a true love, doesn’t have to prevent you form a new true love and from future happiness.
As a historian, I'm always excited about all the period details and the class issues and I'm sick of hearing things like "Maurice is upper-class" (he isn't) or "the class gap between Maurice and Alec is too huge" (in a way it may be even less than between Maurice and Clive, and that’s something that at least Alec is quite aware of).
Well, this is only gay male novel I've read, but I've read many lesbian ones, I read this one cause theovie struck as very sophisticated, 1987, and talked about those Greeks being so grandly gay, only em forester book I read too. my favorite lesbian novel I oddly Other Women by Lisa alther,aybe obscure, 70s, for side issue reasons of politics, depression, and such
I just don't know why this book and the movie as well, aren't talked about anytime. Like this is the best work of fiction I have encountered in mylife. i know I am not a proper critique of art work, but I know when things are over the top awesome and this one is that.
One of my favorite books as well, but it's not a book spared from criticism. When it was published, it was heavily criticized for being unpolished and I somewhat understand. Most of my criticisms stem from how Forster treats Clive as a character because I personally think he's the most compelling one.
Forster builds this rich detail of Clive's early life and weaves this beautiful tale of love between Maurice and him but he abandons Clive in the latter part. He is incredibly unfair (and even Forster admits this in his Terminal Notes) that Clive felt the brunt of his cruelty.
Yeah 👏👏. Two videos in one day, thank you Claudia. Maurice has now been added to my TBR for 2020 🤗
Thank you! Hope you enjoy it :)
Aah Maurice... I first read A Room With a View and absolutely disliked it to put it mildly but Maurice blew me away. Characters development, their complexity, the subject matters and rather realistic and happy ending for a same sex relationship, the social commentary which are always there, all of it convinced to continue with E.M. Forster
It really stands out amongst his novels! Glad it was the first one I read
Just finished today. What a great novel. Groundbreaking considering when it was written.
I have maurice on my bookshelf but i haven't read it yet! love forster though and will get to it eventually.
Hope you enjoy it when you do :) It's certainly more serious than his other books.
Quite honestly, I wasn't ready when I encountered this movie. As a gay man, I was looking for a normal gay representative film, encountered this one... And boy o boy... It just wrecked me up ... The nuances, the acting,the charm of Maurice... Out of this world. I just wish there were more movies like this.
I have a Bug in my head about Maurice ending up with Alec, idk why but it just IS. I was shipping Clive and Maurice so hard from the very beginning, i think that's why it is.
Someone, anyone... Please share your thoughts as well... I am dying to talk about this movie with someone and there's no one to... 🙁
I'm always a bit torn on this, particularly in the book. We're meant to root for Maurice and Clive in the beginning, and then Clive suddenly switches and becomes a whole other person almost off-screen. I think that's why it's difficult to warm to Alec at first. But in the end, Alec offers the kind of romantic freedom that Maurice needs and it makes sense for them to end up together. I will say that the film adaptation filled that gap in the middle, where we get real sense of the fear that motivates Clive at that point to distance himself from Maurice.
@@SpinstersLibrary I just feel so bad for Maurice, he loved Clive like no one did. Remember when, he was so desperate to just keep him company when Clive was ill... And was snubbed, and then when Clive just shrugged him off coming back from Greece.... Ahhh I felt tormented. He truly deserved much more than Clive,
And yeah I agree, the transition from Clive to Alec was quite difficult for me, and particularly it went off from the point when there was the fear that Alec will out Maurice about his sexuality. That blackmailing was quite upsetting.
For me, the most beautiful ( at the same time horrific) scene till date,for any movie, would be that one when Maurice and Clive sat in dorm roaming hands in each others hair.... My god I died... I died there.
Ahhh there... I said everything I wanted to say....I Hope you'll read this.😄
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