A Passage to India (romanzo e film)

A proposito di: "A passage to India"

I miei allievi del Terzo livello sono stati caldamente invitati a leggere molto durante le lunghe vacanze estive.

Ho suggerito una lettura abbastanza impegnativa...non esattamente una lettura da fare in spiaggia sotto l'ombrellone ma, come ho detto in classe: "puntiamo in alto!".

Si tratta del titolo sopra citato. L'autore è E. M. Forster, ed Black Cat con audio cd. Livello B2.2

Ecco qualche informazione per introdurvi al romanzo e alla trasposizione cinematografica:.

A few words about the writer:

Foster was born in London in 1879 and he died in 1970. He was brought up by his mother and aunts after his father's death. He attended Tonbridge School but he hated it because he was never accepted there. He was a homosexual and he was poor at games, while in that school games were considered very important. Then he went to study in Cambridge. There he felt much better because his artistic temperament was appreciated.

In 1912-13 he visited India and he was really disgusted by the way British treated Indians. He started asking himself whether the British should rule India, or if an Indian can be friend with an Englishman. This was the reason why he began to write the novel. He thought of it as a little bridge of sympathy between the East and West, but after World War I and the death of his Egyptian friend and lover he became pessimistic.

The novel was published in 1924.

It is one of the gratest novels of the twentieth century.

The film:

The screen play was written and directed by David Lean. It is based on the 1924 novel of the same title by Forster, but it is slightly different from the story told by the writer.

It had 11 nominations at the Academy Awards and it was distributed by the Columbia Picture in 1984.