Review: Forster, Aspects of the Novel (1927)

[truepenny]

Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I regret not coming across this book sooner, for I find it delightful. I disagree with Forster about almost everything, but such is the pleasure of listening to him talk about books he loves that I don't mind.

I don't know that I would call it useful, either for novelists or critics, because Forster's way of looking at novels is extremely individual (he's right about Tristram Shandy, though), but it was thought-provoking, and I like how much he's able to extract from a single sentence of Mansfield Park.



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Comments

[larryhammer]

I would love to sit Forster and William Empson down in a room and listen to them talk shop.