Maurice.

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E. M. Forster: Maurice. (Spanish language, 1990, Biblioteca de Bolsillo)

217 pages

Spanish language

Published Nov. 19, 1990 by Biblioteca de Bolsillo.

ISBN:
978-84-322-3030-1
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Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster. A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays through university and beyond. It was written in 1913–1914, and revised in 1932 and 1959–1960.

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E.M. Forster was gay.
Gay. Gay. Gay. Gay. Gay
Gayer than a Mayday Parade.
Gaygaygaygaygay.
Homosexual!

IN YER FACE!

Except he wasn't. I mean, he was gay but he wasn't IN YER FACE! about it. This is because of the prevailing culture in Cambridge (where he was a Professor) and probably the rest of Britain, when he was alive. Everybody knew he was gay and that was OK as long as he wasn't IN YER FACE! about it - or indeed as long as he didn't raise the subject in any way at all to any one publicly. I'm sure he thought this was an improvement on the fate of another notable writer of an earlier time, Oscar Wilde, who was also gay. Gay. Gay. Gay. Gay. Gay etc. and got chucked into Reading Gaol for it - whereupon he wrote one of his finest works. But still, that didn't …

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