What did happen to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalizing question provides the intense drama of racial tension at the centre of Forster's last and greatest novel. After a mysterious incident during their visit to the caves, the charming Dr Aziz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naive young Englishwoman new to India. As he is brought to trial, the fragile s...
What did happen to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalizing question provides the intense drama of racial tension at the centre of Forster's last and greatest novel. After a mysterious incident during their visit to the caves, the charming Dr Aziz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naive young Englishwoman new to India. As he is brought to trial, the fragile structure of Anglo-Indian relations collapses and the racism inherent in colonialism is exposed in all its ugliness - a theme which still has powerful, dangerous realities today.
E•M•福斯特(Edward Morgan Forster,1879—1970),英国著名小说家、散文家和批评家,著名的人道主义者,毕业于剑桥大学国王学院,后被母校聘为荣誉研究员。主要作品有长篇小说《天使不敢涉足的地方》(1905)、《最漫长的旅程》(1907)、《看得见风景的房间》(1908)、《霍华德庄园》(1910)、《莫瑞斯》(创作于1913—1914年,1971年作者逝世后出版)、《印度之行》(1924);两部短篇小说集《天国公共马车》(1911)和《永恒的瞬间》(1928),后合为《福斯特短篇小说集》(1947);以及广受好评的小说评论专著《小说面面观》(1927,原为在剑桥大学的系列演讲)。
E•M•福斯特(Edward Morgan Forster,1879—1970),英国著名小说家、散文家和批评家,著名的人道主义者,毕业于剑桥大学国王学院,后被母校聘为荣誉研究员。主要作品有长篇小说《天使不敢涉足的地方》(1905)、《最漫长的旅程》(1907)、《看得见风景的房间》(1908)、《霍华德庄园》(1910)、《莫瑞斯》(创作于1913—1914年,1971年作者逝世后出版)、《印度之行》(1924);两部短篇小说集《天国公共马车》(1911)和《永恒的瞬间》(1928),后合为《福斯特短篇小说集》(1947);以及广受好评的小说评论专著《小说面面观》(1927,原为在剑桥大学的系列演讲)。
Taking off his spectacles, as was his habit before enunciating a general truth, he looked into them sadly, and remarked that the darker races are physically attracted by the fairer, but not vice versa - not a matter for bitterness this, not a matter for abuse, but just a fact which any scientific observer will confirm. (查看原文)
"She'll apologize if that's the trouble," He cried, sitting up. "Look, I'll make you an offer. Dictate to me whatever form of words you like, and this time to-morrow I'll bring it back signed. This is not instead of any public apology she may make you in law. It's an addition."
" 'Dear Dr Aziz, I wish you had come into the cave; I am an awful old hag, and it is my last chance.' Will she sign that?" (查看原文)
E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India explores the difficulty in the mutual understanding and cohabitation of the British and the Indian people in British India in the early twentieth century. The major events centers on an alleged attempted rape. Dr. Aziz, t...
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I find this reading experience quite disturbing, for no one in this novel is adorable enough. Aziz is certainly the star of the book, his words, especially when he is disturbed, are quite sincere and sharp; however, most of the times he can make one so irri...
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抄录书中极短的一章。其间的文字有大美。交错的人,事,和物,走笔一处,又荡开去,起伏开合,大波浪里亦有细碎的水花闪烁。 Chapter 10 THE heat had leapt forward in the last hour, the street was deserted as if a catastrophe had cleaned off humanity during the in...
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还没人写过短评呢