Passage to India
E.M. Forster
What really happened to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalising question provides the intense drama of racial tension at the centre of Forster's last and greatest novel.
Posted by sappho (1 year ago ) Layered, metaphors and meanings and archetypes of the human experience.
Posted by bkoplitz (1 year ago ) This book, while beautifully written, started to seem a bit too stuffy. The descriptions though rich, also veered on the side of hackneyed. For example, the cobra under the crabapple tree. I wonder what that is an allusion to...
It did a great job of describing the the lunacy of colonialism, but the absurdity quickly became sententious. I'd read it, but there are a lot of others that I would read first.
The book made me a bit tired. Towards the end I felt like I was doing more eye movement than brain movement. Just going through the motions.
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UML is an almost mind-meltingly boring... said captainmcdan...