Maurice (Romance)
See also: Maurice (homonymy)
Maurice is a Romance of Edward Morgan Forster largely autobiographical written towards 1913 but only published in 1971, after the death of his author, because of his subject, a homosexual love at the beginning of XXe S. in England. In spite of its awkwardnesses, work is original for its time by its approach of a love between of the same people sex treated at the same time with humor and romanticism. It inspired a film Maurice (1987) carried out by James Ivory.
History
At the beginning of the novel, Maurice, 14 years old, who will enter a private college receives from his professor a lesson of sex education, episode which hardly inspires to him by attraction for the marriage. Poor representative of the middle-class, it follows studies without glare and between at the University where it binds friendship with Clive Durham, which makes him discover the texts of the Greek authors of Antiquity on the Homosexualité. A pure passion links two young people but Maurice of it is not fully satisfied. Concerned from respectability, Clive is detached from his/her friend and marries an young girl of his medium. Maurice, who stopped his studies and leads a life of business men to the City, supports the rupture badly and to fill the vacuum of its existence its spare time devotes by giving lessons of boxing to boys of popular environments of East End. Guest however regularly with the field of Cleaves, it ends up noticing the young gamekeeper, Alec Scudder, and this one comes to join it in its room. In spite of the difference in social environment between the two men, an intense love links them and Scudder gives up leaving for the Argentine.
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