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Title: A touch of class
Review: E.M.Forster is a semi-classical English writer, who produced numerous novels set in the early 20th century. Later, film director James Ivory (an American, strange as it may seem) made a career for himself by turning these books into movies. "A Room with a View" is what you could have called "Proletarian literature" in Soviet literary canon; only working-class setting is replaced by the British "proper" society, still unscathed by the Great War. I have a thing for this epoch, but Forster's book does not reflect its charm in the least. All because of its social message. No gripping plot, no character development, no psychological motivations. The only really enthralling thing is to observe to what degree did the English train their language to conceal feelings. It is what makes the books like Forster's or Ishiguro's "Remains of the Day" almost untranslatable. In Forster's case, though, no harm done.
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