Forster’s novel featured a rare happy endg for gay characters. William di Canz’s new book, “Alec,” picks up and ntu their story.
Contents:
- GAY SEX HALTED E.M. FORSTER'S CAREER
- A NEW NOVEL REVENTS E.M. FORSTER’S CLASSIC GAY LOVE STORY ‘MRICE’
- E M FORSTER'S GAY FICTN
- “ALEC” NTU THE STORY OF E.M. FORSTER’S CLASSIC GAY NOVEL “MRICE”
- HOW MATTHEW LOPEZ TRANSFORMED “HOWARDS END” INTO AN EPIC PLAY ABOUT GAY LIFE
GAY SEX HALTED E.M. FORSTER'S CAREER
* forster gay life *
My own life has spanned the Stonewall challenge through the plague years to a time of gay soldiers and gay marriage, where claimg civil rights for same-sex relatns has turned some mted upl to the ordary folks next door. Forster’s “Mrice” offered a rarefied view of queer possibily: a happy endg for gay men, wh the book’s protagonist, the wealthy and well-ted stockbroker Mrice Hall, fdg love wh the young groundskeeper Alec Scudr.
A NEW NOVEL REVENTS E.M. FORSTER’S CLASSIC GAY LOVE STORY ‘MRICE’
For s, Forster uld not publish his novel of gay love, “Mrice.” Its importance his work and to the wrers he nurtured is only jt beg clear. * forster gay life *
It is also a novel about social class a way most fictn about gay men still do not manage: Clive is upper class, Mrice is middle class, and Alec, workg class, and Forster portrays the rol each is prsed to bee of this, and their ristance or submissn to the mands of those rol.
E M FORSTER'S GAY FICTN
“The Inherance,” openg soon on Broadway, reimag E. M. Forster’s novel as a lovgly wry portra of New York’s gay muny. * forster gay life *
And then he seemed to abandon wrg fictn altogether, up until his ath 1970, when news me of this fal, unpublished novel, as well as a llectn of stori, both about gay thor who would bee so famo for wrg the words “Only nnect” had, unknown to his readg public, wrten his diary 1911 of his “wears of the only subject that I both n and may treat—the love of men for women & vice versa.
” He had already fallen love wh the iend he would base Clive on—a iend who would read the novel he started two years later, about the stggle to live as a gay man Edwardian England, a stggle known timately to Forster, who revealed 60 years later, the posthumoly published novel’s “Termal Note, ” that he, like his characters, was a homosexual.
“ALEC” NTU THE STORY OF E.M. FORSTER’S CLASSIC GAY NOVEL “MRICE”
Cynthia Ozick’s surprisgly sldg and chaotic 1971 review of Mrice Commentary, “FORSTER AS HOMOSEXUAL, ” which she lls Forster’s posthumo revelatn of his sexualy an “dac slap the face, ” clus a cent one-paragraph summatn of what we might ll the first public Forster, the one the public thought they knew when they mourned him:He endured the st of bachelor liv, wh, seen om the outsi, no taclysms.
HOW MATTHEW LOPEZ TRANSFORMED “HOWARDS END” INTO AN EPIC PLAY ABOUT GAY LIFE
There was not the slightt b of anger at what the world had nied Forster, and only ntempt at what he himself might have nied himself as a argument over whether Forster was right or not, or even pole or or “dac, ” to whhold the novel and then publish posthumoly obscur the mix of ways queerns and homosexualy were prosecuted and sists there was a sgle right rponse to his prediment.