5/22/2023 0 Comments Arctic summer by damon galgut![]() ![]() India and the Raj are not concentric they are bipolar.Īrctic Summer does not require a knowledge of Forster’s works, but it helps if one is familiar with A Passage to India. ![]() (“Only connect,” to invoke Forster’s famous phrase.) But it was a disconnect, as A Passage to India proved. Masood became both Morgan’s lover and muse, reminding him that he has “an oriental sensibility” and inspiring him to write the “Indian novel” that Morgan resisted until he felt he could “connect” his world with Masood’s. That was the beginning of a relationship which lasted for fourteen years, as mentorship yielded to friendship, and then to love. Galgut does the same, using Forster’s diaries, among other sources, to animate the names memorialized in them.Ī Passage to India is dedicated to Syed Ross Masood, the Oxford-bound Indian whom Morgan (forget E. His method recalls that of Mary Renault, who identified the sources for her extraordinary novels about ancient Greece in an author’s note. Damon Galgut makes no attempt to finish the novel but uses the title for a reconstruction of Forster’s life, culminating in the writing of his masterpiece, A Passage to India. One can only imagine what Forster would have done with such a theme. Forster about the tension between marriage and friendship that results when a married man develops a close relationship with a male friend. ![]() ISBN 9781609452346Īrctic Summer is the title of an unfinished novel by E. ![]()
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