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7 Jun 2010

EM Forster 'turned against novels after losing his virginity'

EM Forster never wrote a novel after A Passage To India because his first homosexual experience at the age of 38 sapped his creativity, according to a new biography.

The following is an extract from The Telegraph of UK. Click on the link below for the full story.

 

EM Forster, who kept a diary well into his old age (he died in 1970), had reportedly written: “Now I am 85 how annoyed I am with society for wasting my time by making homosexuality criminal. The subterfuges and the self-consciousnesses that might have been avoided.”

The author published a host of acclaimed works including A Room with a View, Howard’s End and Where Angels Fear to Tread in his 20s, but did not complete a single novel in the second half of his life.

 

The sharp decline in Forster's output has always mystified historians, but now a dossier of his private papers has revealed how growing personal contentment stunted his literary drive.

After suppressing his sexuality as a young man, Forster, who was known to his friends as Morgan, lost his virginity to a wounded soldier in 1917 while working for the Red Cross in Egypt.

That sexual awakening in his late 30s led to a series of romances with working class men including a tram conductor and two policemen.

After publishing A Passage to India, arguably his greatest work, in 1924, Forster spurned the novel and most creative endeavours for the rest of his life, publishing only occasional short stories, essays and plays.

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1. 2010-06-07 19:29  
He also wrote the first (positive) gay novel, "Maurice", around 1913, not published until after his death, in 1971; it was made into a very good-looking Merchant-Ivory film in the 1980s starring Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves and James Wilby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_%28novel%29
2. 2010-06-07 22:03  
Brilliant author of "Maurice". Despite the difference in era, I could personally relate the story in "Maurice" even though I have yet to fully understand the meaning of homosexuality. I loved the happy ending. That, to me, elevated it to a status high up on my bookshelf.

The movie adaptation was splendid. After watching it once, I knew that I had to own a copy of it. Hugh Grant was aptly cast as Durham - a character I loved to dislike. The young Rupert Graves was hot. Ben Kingsley was also in the movie. If you like the classics, go watch it.
3. 2010-06-07 23:54  
One of my favourite writers of all time. His most famous quote is "only connect" - from "Howards End". I feel that he found the connection finally in "Maurice" but isn't life all about searching for and finding connections? Happy is he who finds them.
4. 2010-06-07 23:54  
One of my favourite writers of all time. His most famous quote is "only connect" - from "Howards End". I feel that he found the connection finally in "Maurice" but isn't life all about searching for and finding connections? Happy is he who finds them.
5. 2010-06-08 02:55  
The newspapers titles make it sound as if getting a sex life was negative because it destroyed his talent. But he realised himself there, and did not want to write anymore because “The marriage plot fiction had become a masquerade to him”. He wanted to be true to himself!
6. 2010-06-08 09:41  
how can losing your virginity sap your energy?
a series of romances with working class men...yawn

7. 2010-06-08 10:28  
whoa, i like this a LOT:

"how annoyed I am with society for wasting my time by making homosexuality criminal."

assuming that is what he actually wrote.

8. 2010-06-08 13:27  
Guess he'd rather ride than write. LOL :D
9. 2010-06-09 20:40  
I found his hetero drawing room comedies twee- but Maurice is something special, gosh I dig Rupert Graves
10. 2010-06-10 03:32  
That was a long time ago, in a far, far away land.
Bitches, respect!
11. 2010-06-10 06:44  
makes sense actually.. repression can be a motivating force for many things..
12. 2010-06-10 16:23  
2. 'the meaning of homosexuality'? Homosexuality doesn't have a meaning.

Nor does heterosexuality. Or any kind of sexuality.

It's just nature.
13. 2010-06-11 15:28  
Homosexuality, heterosexuality, bisexuality all just terms any thing else is the listeners/readers own emotive connotations, interesting little story babout him I never knew till today.
oh I'm with Lagunabro on "how can losing your virginity sap your energy? a series of romances with working class men...yawn"
though a good orgasm always leaves me napping for a few hours
(;-)) 3-4 I never do any thing else all day sleep it away

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