A Room with a View
1908
À coups de comparisons and not-so-subtle metaphors, Forster tells of the young upper-middle class Lucy's discovery of herself, by means of first discovering Italy. Through what have now become clichés of romance fiction, he diffuses a feminist analysis which refuses to pass equality off as superiority. If it's not Forster's best novel, it certainly is him at his best as a funny moralist. The novel is so pleasant to read, so curt, that you don't see yourself turning the pages. It could have been a play for the shortness of the narrative and the amount of dialogues but, then, let's forgive him, the dialogues can be so good, nothing is missing, nothing seems to miss and nothing needs to go. Little event after little event, you realise how it is all very well scripted.
Tags: early 20th century or perhaps even before, two places, same people, one drama, feminist approach to romance fiction and social satire, funny funny!, romantic interests all mixed up, social satire of the English at home and abroad, Italy vs. England, George Emerson's question mark
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