by E. M. Forster · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141441696
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«Aspects of the Novel» is E. M. Forster's essay on literary criticism, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Forster analyses the novel from his Cambridge lectures: he rejects historical criticism and examines features common to English-language novels —story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern and rhythm— with comparisons between Proust, James, Dickens and Dostoyevsky, in a conversational and ironic tone.
This Penguin Classics edition, published in 2005, includes an introduction by Oliver Stallybrass and a preface by Frank Kermode.
For readers interested in literary criticism, literature students and writers who want to understand the mechanisms of fiction.
Edward Morgan Forster was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as biographies and pageant plays. His short story "The Machine Stops" (1909) is often viewed as the beginning of technological dystopian fiction. He also co-authored the libretto to Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd (1951). Many of his novels examine class differences and hypocrisy. His views as a humanist are at the heart of his work.
