Published in
1924, when the cracks in the British Empire started to appear, E.M.
Forster 's A Passage to India deals with the trial of an Indian doctor accused
of raping an Englishwoman. The work was the last of Forster's
novels, and a thematic change for him as well. Previous novels such as A Room with a View (1908) (read my post here) and Howards End (1910) stayed in Europe,
focusing on the familiar Edwardian theme of the individual's struggle against
the oppressive conventions of society. Influenced by Forster's own travels to
India in 1912-13 and 1921, A Passage to India has been praised not only
for its critique of the British Empire, but also for its stylistic innovation
and philosophical intensity. The novel offers a way of thinking
critically about our relationship to the world, and our relationship to
ourselves.
Here you
can read A Passage to India online. Here you can find a very detailed analysis of
the novel.
Considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th
century, A Passage to India inspired the film of the same title written and directed by David Lean in 1984.
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