![]() This family belongs to a stabile stratum of society, the roots of which are in money. In the Saga Galsworthy presents an entire class contemporary with himself whose types are represented by different members of a large family: the Forsytes. Galsworthy’s fame rests upon The Forsyte Saga, a trilogy consistting of three novels: The Man of Proprety, In Chancery and To Let. The year before his death he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. His most notable plays are: The silver Box and Strife. ![]() After that he began to write dramas too, and for the following years Galsworthy was a most prolific writer producing, on the average, a novel and a play a year. In 1904 he published his novel The Island Pharisees which drew the attention of the public to him then came the publication of The Man of Proprety (1906) which made him famous. After graduating from the university he became a lawyer, like his father.Īs he inherited a large enough fortune at his father’s death he gave up the legal profession and dedicated himself to the study of English and world literature. His father was a well-known London lawyer and was a wealthy man who sent his son firstly to Harrow, a famous public school, and then to Oxford University. ![]()
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![]() In 1988, the AIDS crisis was at its worst and the LGBTQ community was being vilified by religious and political leaders. Arnold, and Fierstein, were what gay audiences had been waiting for. Arnold accepted who he was with a matter-of-fact pride and demanded the same of everyone else. Moviegoers of that era had never before seen a character like Arnold Beckoff, who didn’t care who knew that he was gay or that he made his living dressing in drag and performing in clubs. Viewers watching Torch Song Trilogy today might not understand how ahead of its time the film was upon its initial release in 1988. In the film’s most powerful scene, Arnold tells his mother that he loves her, but he also informs her that if she doesn’t accept his life choices, he will cut her out of his life. Mom has never accepted Arnold’s homosexuality, or his career as a drag queen, and the two have a long-overdue confrontation. Arnold’s mother (Anne Bancroft) visits from Florida. In the final section, Arnold has adopted David (Eddie Castrodad), a gay teenager. ![]() Then tragedy strikes Alan is killed in a brutal gay-bashing. ![]() Their relationship survives, and they make plans to adopt a child together. They move in together, but their relationship is tested when Ed and his girlfriend come into their lives. In the film’s second section, Arnold meets Alan (Matthew Broderick), a handsome model. ![]() ![]() ![]() What confuses me is not the sensibleness of the question but the fact that, when addressed to me, it’s being asked of a writer who has taught writing, on and off, for almost twenty years. Imagine Milton enrolling in a graduate program for help with Paradise Lost, or Kafka enduring the seminar in which his classmates inform him that, frankly, they just don’t believe the part about the guy waking up one morning to find he’s a giant bug. Which may be why the question is so often asked in a skeptical tone implying that, unlike the multiplication tables or the principles of auto mechanics, creativity can’t be transmitted from teacher to student. Because if what people mean is: Can the love of language be taught? Can a gift for storytelling be taught? then the answer is no. It’s a reasonable question, but no matter how often I’ve been asked it, I never know quite what to say. ![]() ![]() From Atlantic Unbound: Interviews: "Reading and Writing" (July 18, 2006) Novelist and critic Francine Prose talks about creativity, literary craftsmanship, and her new book, Reading Like a Writer. ![]() |