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**A major reassessment of the great English novelist** This impressive new book by the celebrated British critic Frank Kermode examines hitherto neglected aspects of the novelist E. M. Forster's life and work. Kermode is interested to see how it was that this apparently shy, reclusive man should have claimed and kept such a central position in the English writing of his time, even though for decades he composed no fiction and he was not close to any of his great contemporaries—Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce. __Concerning E. M. Forster__ has at its core the Clark Lectures that Kermode gave at Cambridge University in 2007 on the subject of Forster, eighty years after Forster himself gave those lectures, which became __Aspects of the Novel__. Kermode reappraised the influence and meaning of that great work, assessed the significance of Forster's profound musicality (Britten thought him the most musical of all writers), and offered a brilliant interpretation of Forster's greatest work, __A Passage to India__. But there is more to __Concerning E. M. Forster__ than that. Thinking about Forster vis-àvis other great modern writers, noting his interest in Proust an

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Author

Frank Kermode

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374298999

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction