6/14/2023 0 Comments The longest journey forster![]() ![]() ![]() Written more than 50 years after the first publication of the novel itself, it is part of a short prefatory text that, if only superficially, encourages a biographically centred reading of the novel. ( LJ lxvi)Īs with much that Forster wrote, this short passage is more complex, cunning and strange than it may first seem. For all its faults, it is the only one of my books that has come upon me without my knowledge. I can remember writing it and how excited I was and how absorbed, and how sometimes I went wrong deliberately, as if the spirit of anti-literature had jogged my elbow. The Longest Journey is the least popular of my five novels but the one I am most glad to have written….
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