Maurice is interesting and it's beautifully written but the "happy ending" bit always frustrates me, because I was just like, "HOW? How is that a happy ending? Where are they going to live?" altho maybe you're supposed to handwave that part. But the rest of the book has been so realistic about the social dangers of queer life that it reads like an escape into fantasy, at least for me. But it's gorgeous.
(I once looong ago read a queer lit theory type paper that talked about Proust and Forster and other writers projecting queer desire onto their straight heroines, but of course I can't find it now....)
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Date: 2020-12-12 12:16 am (UTC)(I once looong ago read a queer lit theory type paper that talked about Proust and Forster and other writers projecting queer desire onto their straight heroines, but of course I can't find it now....)