![]() ![]() Between these two journeys lay much turmoil and passion: the writing of his unpublishable homosexual novel, his friendship with other writers like Virginia Woolf and C.P. He was only able to complete it in 1924, after he had gone back to India again, this time as the Private Secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas. He started writing it in 1913, when he got back to England, but his creative impulse was soon blocked. ![]() When Masood returned to India in 1912, Forster followed him-and it was on this journey, travelling through much of the country when it was still under British rule, that the first seeds of his novel were planted. Desperately repressed, living in the shadow of his mother, he was unable to act on his most intimate feelings. It was the start of a lifelong friendship that was also, on Forster’s side, a deep, unrequited love. In 1906, Forster-who was already starting to make a name for himself as one of England’s most promising writers-met Syed Ross Masood, a young Indian who had come to his country to study law. A powerful personal story lies behind the writing, which comes to life for the first time in Arctic Summer. His last and greatest novel, A Passage To India, was written over a period of eleven years-and for nine of those years he was stuck, unable to move forward. Forster, one of the most iconic writers of our time, lived when the British Empire was at its height. Arctic Summer By: Damon Galgut 4.0 1 Review Write a Review Published: 1st January 2015 ISBN: 9781782391593 Number Of Pages: 368 Share This Book: Paperback 31. ![]()
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