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A Passage to India

E. M. Forster

29,773 words

インドを訪れた英国娘アデラとインド人医師アズィズに起こったマラバール洞窟での不可解な出来事をきっかけに、在印英国人とインド人との間の憎悪、不信感、恐怖が大きく表面化する。英国植民地下のインドにおける脅威と対立を、「政治では解決できない何か、民族の故郷に対するあくなき探求、インドの地と空に染み付いた苦悩の歴史、そしてマラバール洞窟に潜む恐怖」として描いたフォースターの代表作。

A mysterious incident at the Marabar Caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and Dr Aziz, an Indian doctor, leads to a drama that divides the British and Indian communities in anger, distrust, and fear. Forster's great novel brings to life all the dangers and misunderstandings of colonialism but, as Forster himself wrote, the story is 'about something wider than politics, about the search of the human race for a more lasting home, about the universe as embodied in the Indian earth and the Indian sky, about the horror lurking in the Marabar Caves...

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