La Machine nous a volé le sens de l'espace et du toucher, elle a brouillé toute relation humaine, elle a paralysé nos corps et nos volontés, et maintenant, elle nous oblige à la vénérer. La Machine se développe - mais pas selon nos plans. La Machine agit - mais pas selon nos objectifs. Nous ne sommes rien de plus que des globules sanguins circulant dans ses artères.

La machine s'arrête

Au fil de l'Inde

Depuis son plus jeune âge, Maurice est hanté par des rêves dont il s'explique mal la nature étrange et mélancolique. Puis, comme tous les jeunes gens de la bonne société anglaise, il part faire ses études à Cambridge. C'est là qu'il rencontre Clive, étudiant comme lui, auprès de qui il sent naître de nouveaux sentiments. Tentant d'abord d'ignorer cette passion, le jeune homme va peu à peu entamer un long cheminement, parfois douloureux, vers la liberté et l'affirmation de son identité. Dans ce récit intimiste à l'écriture ciselée, Forster, qui jamais ne consentit à ce que cette oeuvre soit publiée de son vivant, livre une magnifique histoire d'amour sur fond de chronique sociale de l'Angleterre puritaine des années 1920.

Maurice

Comme son adaptation au cinéma sous le titre Chambre avec vue l'a montré, le charme qui se dégage de ce roman d'apprentissage amoureux, écrit par le grand écrivain britannique E.M. Forster (1879 - 1970), n'a rien perdu de son intensité au fil du temps. C'est que l'initiation à l'amour est un thème éternel, et lorsqu'il est traité avec l'humour et la fine psychologie de l'auteur de Route des Indes, il n'est pas près de passer de mode. C'est ainsi qu'entre un baiser volé parmi les cataractes de violettes sur les ravins de Fiesole, un autre baiser raté par un fiancé au pince-nez d'or et un troisième arraché par un amoureux passionné sur un sentier étroit, la jeune Lucy va se libérer du carcan victorien de son milieu pour devenir une héroïne qui fait rêver aujourd'hui encore, comme elle a enchanté et enthousiasmé ses lecteurs voici un siècle.

Avec vue sur l'Arno

"But you do," he went on, not waiting for contradiction. "You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you, and no other word expresses it ..."Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son George.Lucy finds herself torn between the intensity of life in Italy and the repressed morals of Edwardian England, personified in her terminally dull fiancé Cecil Vyse. Will she ever learn to follow her own heart?

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world. In his introduction, Pankaj Mishra outlines Forster's complex engagement with Indian society and culture. This edition reproduces the Abinger text and notes, and also includes four of Forster's essays on India, a chronology and further reading.

Routes des Indes

In the autumn of 1915, in a slightly heroic mood, E.M. Forster arrived in Alexandria, full of lofty ideals as a volunteer for the Red Cross. Yet most of his time was spent exploring the magic, antiquity, and complexity of the place in order to cope with living in what he saw as a “funk-hole.” With a novelist’s pen, he brings to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt, beacon of light and culture symbolized by the Pharaohs, where the doomed love affair of Antony and Cleopatra was played out and the greatest library the world has ever known was built. Threading 3,000 years of history with vibrant strands of literature and punctuating the narrative with his own experiences, Forster immortalized Alexandria, painting an incomparable portrait of the great city and, inadvertently, himself.

Alexandrie: une histoire et un guide

E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Oliver Stallybrass, and features a new preface by Frank Kermode.First given as a series of lectures at Cambridge University, Aspects of the Novel is Forster's analysis of this great literary form. Here he rejects the 'pseudoscholarship' of historical criticism - 'that great demon of chronology' - that considers writers in terms of the period in which they wrote and instead asks us to imagine the great novelists working together in a single room. He discusses aspects of people, plot, fantasy and rhythm, making illuminating comparisons between novelists such as Proust and James, Dickens and Thackeray, Eliot and Dostoyevsky - the features shared by their books and the ways in which they differ. Written in a wonderfully engaging and conversational manner, this penetrating work of criticism is full of Forster's habitual irreverence, wit and wisdom.In his new introduction, Frank Kermode discusses the ways in which Forster's perspective as a novelist inspired his lectures. This edition also includes the original introduction by Oliver Stallybrass, a chronology, further reading and appendices.E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was a noted English author and critic and a member of the Bloomsbury group. His first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread appeared in 1905. The Longest Journey appeared in 1907, followed by A Room With A View (1908), based partly on the material from extended holidays in Italy with his mother. Howards End (1910) was a story that centered on an English country house and dealt with the clash between two families, one interested in art and literature, the other only in business. Maurice was revised several times during his life, and finally published posthumously in 1971.If you enjoyed Aspects of the Novel, you might like Forster's A Room with a View, also available in Penguin Classics.

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