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FemmeNoiresque: Scott's The Raj Quartet, and particularly the relationship between Daphne Manners and Hari Kumar in the first novel, The Jewel In The Crown, is a revisioning of the charge of rape made by Adela Quested to Dr Aziz. Race, class and empire are explored in the aftermath of this event, in WWII India.… (mere)
3.5/5 My feelings about this book were all over the place. Forster's writing is gorgeous as usual, but I had a difficult time caring about any of these characters, British or Indian. The motives behind the characters' actions were vague and noncommittal. The so-called exotic atmosphere was tainted--similar in a way to Joyce's “Araby“. I walked away unenlightened and depressed. ( )
The book gives an excellent impression of life in India during British colonial occupation. It gives a vivid picture of the people, the mixture of races, especially the English versus the local natives. Real character studies come alive as their thoughts are expressed. You feel you are there in the oppressive heat, meeting the players, hearing their conversations, feeling their concerns, observing the pettiness, pompousness, contrasted with the genuineness of a few of them.
Colonial India captured in a backwater town with a small but vivid collection of characters. Slow going overall. This worked well as a read just before bed as it generally put me to sleep. ( )
Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen VidenRedigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
To Syed Ross Masood and to the seventeen years of our friendship
Første ord
Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen VidenRedigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
Except for the Marabar caves--and they are twenty miles off--the city of Chrandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.
The India described in A Passage to India no longer exists either politically or socially. (Prefatory Note)
Perhaps it is chance, more than any peculiar devotion, that determines a man in his choice of medium, when he finds himself possessed by an obscure impulse towards creation. (Introduction)
Citater
Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen VidenRedigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
"We must exclude someone from our gathering, or we shall be left with nothing."
Sidste ord
Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen VidenRedigér teksten, så den bliver dansk.
But the horses didn't want it--they swerved apart; the earth didn't want it, sending up rock through which riders must pass single file; the temples, the tanks, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they issued from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said, "No, not there."
I my also mention here that The Hill of Devi (an autobiographical work published in 1953) contains some of the material utilized n the final section of the novel. (Prefatory Note)
It is possible that the mind which saw so visionarily the significance of Stephen, and which could tell the Wilcoxes that 'nothing has been done wrong', has achieved their own wisdom; that the organism, being perfectly adjusted, is silent. (Introduction)
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