by Edward M. Forster
Another great discovery of English literature! The plot seems boring for our modern standards. But how Forster develops his characters, the intrigues between them is just fantastic. This reminds me to a German Classic: Goethe’s “Wahlverwandtschaften” – which is also settled in remote times but intriguingly topical.
Each person with its own interests, weaknesses and live strategies. They can be subconscious-genetic or willful, conceptualized behavior. The tension between them is so real. The description of these situations makes you turn pages. The problems between humans do not really change, just the circumstances. Therefore a well written book on this subject was and will be topical at all times.
I guess I owe the plot here: two sisters – daughters of a marriage between a German idealist and romantic and an English woman – meet the clan of an upper-class English family with its pragmatic and imperialistic approach to life. Several love affairs raise and are questioned. Distrust, intrigues, betrayal, mistakes and misunderstandings are the pavement of the way trough the novel in order to reach reconciliation.
Each person with its own interests, weaknesses and live strategies. They can be subconscious-genetic or willful, conceptualized behavior. The tension between them is so real. The description of these situations makes you turn pages. The problems between humans do not really change, just the circumstances. Therefore a well written book on this subject was and will be topical at all times.
I guess I owe the plot here: two sisters – daughters of a marriage between a German idealist and romantic and an English woman – meet the clan of an upper-class English family with its pragmatic and imperialistic approach to life. Several love affairs raise and are questioned. Distrust, intrigues, betrayal, mistakes and misunderstandings are the pavement of the way trough the novel in order to reach reconciliation.
Facts:
English title: Howards End
Original title: Howards End
Published: 1910
